7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 7:35 PM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 830 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2003. FORECAST CHALLENGE CONCERNS CONVECTIVE THREAT AND TEMPERATURES. SCT CONVECTION CONTINUES OVER EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND TO A LESSER EXTENT OVER WESTERN MN. BAND OF STRONGEST CONVECTION OVER EXTREME EASTERN ND AHEAD OF N/S BOUNDARY WITH FAVORABLE PARAMETERS SHIFTING TO FAR SE ND. CONVECTION PROPAGATING EAST VERY SLOWLY RESULTING IN LOCALIZED POCKETS OF HEAVY RAIN. WEAK WAVE AND ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY SHIFTING SLOWLY EAST AND SHOULD PUSH INTO WESTERN MN OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. RUC INDICATING LOW LEVEL JET IN 15-25KT RANGE SO WHILE NOT STRONG MAY BE ENOUGH TO HOLD CONVECTION TOGETHER INTO EARLY AM HOURS. AS A RESULT WILL NEED TO KEEP SOME MENTION OF TSRA HITTING SOUTHERN AREAS HARDEST. LOW TO MID 60 DEWPOINTS COVER NEARLY ALL OF FA AND RUC SLOW TO MOVE IN DRIER AIR WHICH IS BARLEY INTO FAR NW FA. MAY NEED TO ADJUST MINIMUM TEMPERATURES UP SLIGHTLY IN SOME AREAS. .FGF...NONE. VOELKER
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-161345- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 539 AM CDT MON JUN 16 2003 ...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA THROUGH MID MORNING. SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA INTO NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND PRODUCE ISOLATED OCCURRENCES OF LARGE HAIL ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REDEVELOP AFTER 3 PM ALONG AND SOUTH OF A DEVILS LAKE TO HALLOCK LINE...AND MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH AROUND MIDNIGHT OVER THE RED RIVER VALLEY...THOUGH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL PERSIST INTO WESTERN AND CENTRAL MINNESOTA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST MINNESOTA TODAY...AND PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM...ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING ALONG AND SOUTH OF A BEMIDJI TO BRECKENRIDGE LINE. BY MIDDAY TUESDAY...THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY SHOULD BE WELL INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALSO EXISTS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL MOVE INTO THE DAKOTAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FGF (ALL LOWER CASE) GUST
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:01 UTC.
7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Street flooding was reported along U.S. Highway 2.
Several large elm trees were blown over.
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, June 2003
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: 5365964, 5365965, 5365966, 5365967, 5365968, 5365969, 5365970, 5365971, 5365972.