Hail, Kittson
- When
- July 31, 8:05 PM CST
- Where
- Kittson County, 13 mi NE of Lancaster
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 49.000, -96.617
Hail in Minnesota, July 31, 2004
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 31, 7:15 PM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 7:15 PM CST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 815 PM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004 .DISCUSSION...EXCEPT FOR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEARING THE U.S. BORDER/KITTSON COUNTY THE SEVERE THREAT HAS DIMINISHED WITH SURFACE COOLING IMMINENT...NO LOW LEVEL JET TO KEEP IT GOING AT AN ELEVATED LEVEL THOUGH THE RESPONSIBLE SHORTWAVE WILL NOT FINALLY REACH LAKE OF THE WOODS FOR ANOTHER 2 HOURS OR SO. WILL TAKE OUT THUNDER FROM FORECAST EXCEPT FOR KITTSON COUNTY EASTWARD AS WE WERE TOO STABLE FOR MOST OF THE AREA TO GET THEM STARTED...AND WILL ONLY MENTION ISOLATED THUNDER THERE. SKIES ARE BECOMING MOSTLY CLEAR BEHIND THE SHORTWAVE AND WILL HAVE TO CONSIDER DENSE FOG. THAT SEEMS MOST LIKELY EAST OF RED RIVER VALLEY AND MAY CONFINE IT THERE AS WE WOULD USUALLY NEED SOME GROUND MOISTURE IN THE VALLEY. UPDATED FORECAST WILL BE DONE BY 845 PM. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE. && GV
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 6:26 AM CST, 13 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 726 AM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-311400- BARNES-BENSON-CASS-CAVALIER-CLAY-EAST BECKER-EAST MARSHALL- EAST OTTER TAIL-EAST POLK-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-GRAND FORKS- GRANT-GRIGGS-HUBBARD-KITTSON-LAKE OF THE WOODS-MAHNOMEN-NELSON- NORMAN-NORTH BELTRAMI-NORTH CLEARWATER-PEMBINA-PENNINGTON-RAMSEY- RANSOM-RED LAKE-RICHLAND-ROSEAU-SARGENT-SOUTH BELTRAMI- SOUTH CLEARWATER-STEELE-TOWNER-TRAILL-WADENA-WEST BECKER- WEST MARSHALL-WEST OTTER TAIL-WEST POLK-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-WILKIN- 726 AM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004 CORRECTION TO LAST SENTENCE ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND NIGHT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN SUNDAY AND MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LANGDON NORTH DAKOTA TO WADENA MINNESOTA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP AFTER 3 PM AND WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME UNSTABLE BY LATE AFTERNOON WITH DEWPOINTS RISING INTO THE 60S. A WEAK COLD OVER SOUTHERN CANADA WILL EXTEND FROM NEAR BAUDETTE TO NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA BY LATE AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ON SUNDAY MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND WOULD BE MOST LIKELY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PARK RAPIDS TO FERGUS FALLS MINNESOTA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ON MONDAY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. HOPPES
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 172 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:04 UTC.
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
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 31, 2004
- Tornado in South Dakota, July 31, 2004
- Heavy Rain in Florida, July 31, 2004
- Flood in Pennsylvania, July 31, 2004
- Tornado in Minnesota, July 31, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, July 31, 2004
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, July 31, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 31, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 31, 2004
- Hail in Minnesota, July 31, 2004
- Flooding in Kentucky, July 31, 2004
- Hail in Minnesota, July 31, 2004
More
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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: 5414687.