Hail, Benson
- When
- July 19, 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- Benson County, 3 mi W of Maddock
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 47.967, -99.600
Hail in North Dakota, July 19, 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 Jul 18, 7:40 PM CST, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 7:40 PM CST, 6 hours 20 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 840 PM CDT FRI JUL 18 2003 .CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW... 01Z MSAS ANALYSIS DEPICTED HIGH PRESSURE FROM MINNESOTA TO THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES WHILE LOW PRESSURE AND ASSOCIATED TROUGH AXIS WAS SITUATED FROM SOUTHEAST MONTANA TO SOUTHERN MANITOBA. STRONGEST INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE (RESULTANT LOW LEVEL FORCING) WAS POOLING IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO BOUNDARY FROM EASTERN MONTANA INTO THE WESTERN DAKOTAS. LATEST WATER VAPOR CONFIRMED STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET PUNCHING SOUTHEAST INTO WESTERN GREAT LAKES WHILE WEAK SHORTWAVE ENERGY OVER SOUTHERN MONTANA WAS AIDING CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE WESTERN DAKOTAS. .FORECAST DETAILS... LATEST OBSERVATIONAL TRENDS INDICATE INSTABILITY/MOISTURE INCREASING FROM VALLEY WEST. PROXIMITY OF BOUNDARY OVERNIGHT SUGGESTS BEST LOW LEVEL FORCING/INSTABILITY POOLING SHOULD BE FOCUSED FROM DEVILS LAKE BASIN TO POINTS NORTHEAST. APPEARS ANY CONVECTION THAT FIRES WILL HAVE TOUGH TIME SELF-SUSTAINING THROUGH OVERNIGHT IN LIGHT OF NIL NOCTURNAL LOW LEVEL JET INFLUX OR FAVORABLE AID OF LARGE SCALE ASCENT FROM UPPER LEVEL JET. PRESENT INDICATIONS POINT TO SOME FINE TUNING/SHAVING OF POPS OVERNIGHT. WILL WAIT FOR NEW 00Z MODEL GUIDANCE TO ARRIVE AND HOPEFULLY SHED ADDITIONAL LIGHT ON SITUATION. .FGF...NONE. BERG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 5:23 AM CST, 20 hours 37 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-181415- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 623 AM CDT FRI JUL 18 2003 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA ALONG AND AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT. AS THIS FRONT MOVES EAST THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE DEVILS LAKE BASIN MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS IS EXPECTED AFTER 2 PM AND SHOULD END BY MIDNIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO SHIFT EAST DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE FAVORED LOCATION FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM VALLEY CITY NORTH DAKOTA TO ROSEAU MINNESOTA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VOELKER
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Lightning Strike in Utah, July 19, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, July 19, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, July 19, 2003
- Flash Flood in Nevada, July 19, 2003
- Lightning Strikes in South Carolina, July 19 to 21, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, July 19, 2003
- Hail in Minnesota, July 19, 2003
- Hail in Nebraska, July 19, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 19, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 19, 2003
- Lightning Strike and Heavy Rain in North Carolina, July 19 to 21, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 19, 2003
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, July 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: 5369126.