Thunderstorm Wind, Golden Valley
- When
- July 2, 11:15 PM CST
- Where
- Golden Valley County, Beach
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 46.917, -104.000
Several tree limbs down.
Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 2, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 2:00 PM CST, 9 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:00 PM CST, 9 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 300 PM CDT WED JUL 02 2003 MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. THEN AGAIN IN EARLY PORTION OF EXTENDED PERIOD. GFS SHOWING SOME CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK PROBLEMS EARLY WHICH SEEMS TO PUSH CDFNT EWD FASTER THAN ETA. BESIDES DIFFERENCES IN FRONTAL POSN EARLY WILL USE AN ETA/GFS BLEND. CURRENTLY...CAP STILL HOLDING OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA BEHIND MORNING CONVECTION THAT SPREAD ACROSS NCNTRL CWA. OVER FAR SOUTH CENTRAL PTN CWA IS PARTICULAR CONCERN THIS AFTN JUST N OF MSAS DEPICTED SFC LOW WITH SFC CONVERGENCE TAKING PLACE AND INCREASING SFC HEATING PUSHING TEMPS CLOSE TO CONVECTIVE TEMPS. THIS AREA SEEMS MOST LIKELY FOR TSTM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING. BEYOND THAT...COULD SEE A REPEAT TOMORROW MORNING...ALTHOUGH FARTHER SOUTH...WITH CONVECTION SPILLING INTO CWA FROM THE WEST. ALTHOUGH SFC FNT MOVES THROUGH CWA...RESIDUAL MOISTURE REMAINS BEHIND CDFNT...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHERN CWA. INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHEAST HALF OF CWA THROUGH THURSDAY. SO WITH CONTINUED IMPULSES IN SOUTHWEST FLOW...WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF TSTMS THROUGH THURSDAY. THING CLEAR OUT THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY WITH MORE OF A ZONAL THEN NORTHWEST FLOW. IT WILL REMAIN HOT AND HUMID OVER SOUTHEAST CWA ON THURSDAY WHILE NORTHWEST HALF DRIES OUT A BIT. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL BE CLOSER TO NORMAL TEMPS ACROSS CWA. IN THE EXTENDED...NEXT WAVE APPROACHES AREA SATURDAY NIGHT. PAST TWO RUNS OF GFS HAVE BEEN SLOWER...AND THE LAST RUN HAS STRENGTHENED WAVE QUITE A BIT. WILL INTRODUCE A CHANCE OF PCPN SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY AS WAVE MOVES THROUGH. BEST CHANCE FOR US ATTIM LOOKS TO BE SUNDAY BUT ADDED SAT NIGHT TO BLEND IN WITH SURROUNDING WFOS. FOR NOW WILL KEEP REMAINDER OF THE EXTENDED FCST DRY. .BIS...NONE TWH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 3:39 AM CST, 19 hours 36 minutes before
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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 2, 6:30 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
ZCZC BISLSRISN ALL
TTAA00 KBIS DDHHMM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
730 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0645 AM 26 N WILLISTON ND 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/02/03 WILLIAMS REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
THOMSONThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Florida, July 2, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 2, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 2, 2003
- Flood in Florida, July 2, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, July 2, 2003
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 2, 2003
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Carolina, July 2, 2003
- Tornado in South Carolina, July 2, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 2, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 2 to 3, 2003
- Tornado in North Carolina, July 2, 2003
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 2, 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: 5378734.