2 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 29, 8:00 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 900 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2003 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES FOR TONIGHT ARE PRECIPITATION AND WINDS. CURRENT SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS MOSTLY MID TO HIGH CLOUDS OVER AREA. LATEST MSAS SURFACE ANALYSIS HAS DRY LINE EXTENDING THROUGH AREA ALONG A LANGDON-JMS-MBG LINE. ETA AND GFS SIMILAR. DRY LINE CONTINUES MOVING E THROUGH AREA TONIGHT AS SURFACE LOW INTENSIFIES AND DROPS INTO N MN. BY 12Z FRI...SURFACE LOW WELL E OF AREA INTO LK SUPERIOR...WITH STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION AND DRYING MOVING INTO AREA BEHIND LOW. WITH WINDS UPSTREAM SUSTAINED AROUND 30 MPH AND GUSTING TO AROUND 45 MPH...WILL ISSUE WIND ADVISORY FOR NE ND AND PART OF NW MN FOR TONIGHT. LATER SHIFTS WILL NEED TO DETERMINE IF ADVISORY SHOULD BE EXPANDED IN AREA OR LENGTH. IN ADDITION...CURRENT CONVECTION IN N PART OF AREA HAS BEEN SLOWLY INTENSIFYING...WITH CAP HOLDING SO FAR OVER S PART OF AREA WHICH HAS BETTER CAPES. SWOMCD HAS CAPTURED SITUATION WELL. IN ANY REGARD...STORMS WILL NEED TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS TO SEE IF ANY GO SEVERE. ONLY AREA THAT CAN REMOVE POPS AT THIS TIME WILL BE DVL SET. MINOR CHANGES REST OF FORECAST. .FGF...WIND ADVISORY FOR PARTS NE ND AND NW MN TONIGHT. NG
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-291430- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 633 AM CDT THU MAY 29 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. AFTER 3 PM THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA SPREADING SOUTH AND EAST DURING THE EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH ACROSS EASTERN AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION AROUND MIDNIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AND TRAILING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VOELKER
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 140 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:00 UTC.
2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A brief tornado touchdown caused minor tree damage and lifted shingles on several roofs. A tin building was lifted into the street, causing minor damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 2003Warnings in Minnesota, May 2003
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5353632, 5353633, 5353634.