Tornado, La Moure
- When
- July 20, 1:50 AM CST
- Where
- La Moure County, 3 mi SW of Verona
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 46.333, -98.117
Tornado touched down in open country snapping four (4) foot diameter trees.
Tornado in North Dakota, July 20, 2003
1 tornado, 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 19, 1:50 PM CST, 12 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 1:50 PM CST, 12 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 250 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 2003 FORECAST CHALLANGE TODAY INVOLVES CHC OF PRECIPITATION AND FURTHER CHC OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH COLD FRONT ADVANCING INTO NORTHERN NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... CURRENT TRENDS INDICATE CONVECTIVE TEMPS SHOULD BE MET ACROSS WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS READING RISE INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S. THIS MORNINGS SOUNDING SHOWED SIGNIFICANT CAP...BUT THIS WILL LIKELY BE ERODED DUE TO HEATING AND FRONTAL LIFTING. WILL KEEP MENTION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN FORECAST THIS EVENING. ON SUNDAY...PROGRESSION OF SURFACE FRONT WIULL BRING IN CVOOLER MORE STABLE AIR. SOME LINGERING CHC OF THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE JMS AREA...BUT EXPECT DRY WEATHER BY AFTERNOON. REMAINDER OF FORECAST DOMINATED BY SLOLW BUILDING RIDGE INTO THE NORTRHERN PLAINS BY MIDWEEK. THIS WILL GENERAQLYY PROVIDE WARM AND DRY WEATHER TO THE REGION. SHORT WAVE TROUGH WILL END THE RIDGES REIGN BY THURSDAY INTO THE WEEKEND...BRINGING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION. BIS...NONE. ABELING
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 4:21 AM CST, 21 hours 29 minutes before
NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-201015- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 521 AM CDT SAT JUL 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VINING
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 9:59 PM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
NDZ004-005-012-013-200430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1059 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 2003 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #765 THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR...PIERCE...MCHENRY...BOTTINEAU AND ROLETTE COUNTIES...HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. VINING
Local storm report, Jul 20, 1:48 AM CST, 2 minutes before
ZCZC BISLSRBIS ALL
TTAA00 KBIS DDHHMM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
248 AM CDT SUN JUL 20 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0145 AM JAMESTOWN ND 1 INCH HAIL
07/20/03 STUTSMAN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
NNNNThe radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:52 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in California, July 20, 2003
- Tornado in Iowa, July 20, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 20 to 21, 2003
- Tornado in Iowa, July 20, 2003
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, July 20, 2003
- Heat in Oklahoma, July 20, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 20, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, July 20 to 21, 2003
- Hail in Nebraska, July 20, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, July 20 to 22, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 20, 2003
- Tornado in Iowa, July 20, 2003
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 2003Warnings 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: 5376734.