Hail, Cass
- When
- April 27, 12:00 AM CST
- Where
- Cass County, 2 mi NW of Arthur
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 47.117, -97.233
Hail in North Dakota, April 27, 2003
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Apr 26, 7:30 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 7:30 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 830 PM CDT SAT APR 26 2003 FOCUS TONIGHT IS ON ELEVATED CONVECTION....WITH THREAT OF HAILERS IN SE ND. PARAMTERS IN PLACE FOR ELEVATED CONVECTION DEVELOPMENT BTWN 02Z AND 06Z IN ERN ND. SFC RUC SHOWING INCREASING 85H JET THIS EVENING...WITH ETA MODEL SHOWING INCREASE 85H JET TO 45-50 KTS FROM ERN SD INTO WCNTRL MN WITH LEFT QUAD OVER SE ND. SE ND/WCNTRL MN ALSO IN AREA OF PRETTY STRONG 85H THETA-E ADVECTION AS WELL. WOULD LIKE TO SEE 85H MOISTURE/TEMP WARM ADVECTION NUMBERS A BIT HIGHER FOR SEVERE WX...BUT STRENGTH OF ADVECTION PARAMETERS ALONE WOULD FAVOR ISOLD SVR...BEST CHC OF THIS IN SE ND. FREEZING LEVELS FROM PROG SOUNDINGS NR 10KFT BUT TAKING OUT 2200FT ELEVATED LEVEL FROM SFC TO NR 85H WOULD MAKE FIRST GUESS VIL OF THE DAY 40-45. 01Z SFC MAP SHOWS SFC LOW NR BISMARCK WITH WARM FRONT DENOTING SOUTH WINDS FROM SOUTHEAST WINDS OVER FAR SRN ND NORTH OF ABERDEEN AND SISSETON THEN SOUTH TO JUST EAST OF SIOUX FALLS. SEEING GOOD SFC DEW PT INCREASE UP TO THE UPPER 40S IN NARROW AXIS FROM JUST EAST OF BISMARCK TO ABERDEEN WITH 50 DEW PTS IN SCNTRL SD. POSITION OF WARM FRONT ALSO IN GOOD LOCATION FOR ELEVATED CONVECTION FOR SE ND BASED ON LOCAL STUDY OF ELEVATED CONVECTION OVER PAST 3 YEARS. WILL LOOK OVER GRIDDS...BUT THINK DEW PTS MIGHT BE A TAD LOW. OTHERWISE MINIMAL CHANGES. .FGF...NONE. RIDDLE
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 8:33 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-270500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 933 PM CDT SAT APR 26 2003 ...CORRECTED TO INCLUDE A SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT AND PUSH THROUGH EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE REGION BY SUNRISE. STRONG WINDS ARE ANTICIPATED BEHIND THE COLD FRONT WHERE WESTERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. A LOW PRESSURE CENTER AND A POTENT UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL TRACK THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS TONIGHT CREATING THE UNSETTLED WEATHER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. PLEASE NOTIFY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OF HAIL REPORTS. DPORTER
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 46 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:59 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, April 27, 2003
- Strong Wind in Montana, April 27, 2003
- High Wind in Texas, April 27, 2003
- Hail in Florida, April 27, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, April 27, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, April 27, 2003
- Wildfire in Illinois, April 27 to 28, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Wind in Gulf of Mexico, April 27, 2003
- Heavy Snow in California, April 27 to 28, 2003
- Hail in Florida, April 27, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 27, 2003
- Flood in Illinois, April 27 to 30, 2003
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, April 2003
Sources
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: 5351182.