1 hail, 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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 1:45 AM CST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 245 AM CDT WED JUL 02 2003 MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY AND THIS EVENING. SHORT WAVE ENERGY FORECAST TO REACH THE FAR WESTERN AREAS THIS MORNING. SURFACE BOUNDARY ALONG THE MT/ND BORDER WILL DRIFT EAST REACHING CENTRAL CWA AROUND 18Z TODAY. VERY UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE REGION WITH DEWPOINTS AROUND 60 WEST AND IN THE UPPER 60S CENTRAL. LIFTED INDICES TO -8 AND MLCAPES TO 3000 J/KG PROGGED OVER THE REGION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH FAIRLY STRONG CAP IN PLACE AT THIS TIME EXPECT THE SHORT WAVE ENERGY...UPPER LEVEL FORCING AND SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL WEAKEN THE CAP THIS AFTERNOON. WITH STRONG SURFACE HEATING AND INSTABILITY WILL SEE AN INCREASE OF CONVECTION CENTRAL THIS AFTERNOON. CURRENTLY...CONVECTION OVER EASTERN MT MAKING ITS WAY TO FAR WESTERN ND AT THIS TIME. THE BAMEX FORECAST SHOWING THE MT CONVECTION HOLDING TOGETHER REACHING FAR NORTHWESTERN CWA AROUND 12Z THEN WEAKEN SOME BY 18Z AS IT APPROACHES CENTRAL CWA BUT BY 21Z CONVECTION BECOMES MORE NUMEROUS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL. SPC PLACES ALL CWA IN SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE. ZONAL FLOW PATTERN DEVELOPS THURSDAY LASTING THRU THE REST OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. DRY WEATHER AND COOLER TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED AFTER TODAYS EVENT. .BIS...NONE RGT
NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-031000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 439 AM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND THIS EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... ESPECIALLY CENTRAL. MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TURNER
NDZ001-009-017-021020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 327 AM CDT (227 AM MDT) WED JUL 2 2003 AT 325 AM CDT (225 AM MDT) LOCAL RADAR INDICATED TWO BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN MONTANA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE NORTHERN BAND WILL MOVE ACROSS DIVIDE AND MUCH OF WILLIAMS COUNTY WHILE THE SOUTHERN BAND WILL MOVE OVER SOUTHERN MCKENZIE COUNTY. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS THROUGH SUNRISE. THOMSON
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Winds estimated at 55 mph flipped a couple campers over on their sides and a picnic shelter was blown over at Blacktail Dam Recreational area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Dakota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, July 2003
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