Hail in North Dakota, August 1, 2004

Name: Hail in North Dakota, August 1, 2004
Start: 2004-08-01T20:25
End: 2004-08-01T20:25
Location: North Dakota

August 1, 2004 · NWS BIS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Aug 1, 1:10 PM CST, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 1:10 PM CST, 7 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
210 PM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004

.SHORT TERM...
MID SUMMER BOUNDARY LAYER HEAT AND MOISTURE...UNDER SOUTHWARD
DEPRESSED WESTERLIES... WILL BRING AN ACTIVE PERIOD AS NUMEROUS
RIPPLES IN THE FLOW AND SURFACE BOUNDARIES ACT AS TRIGGERS FOR
CONVECTION. THE BROADER PICTURE HAS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDING
OVER THE ROCKIES AND THEN MOVING EAST INTO THE PLAINS...BUT ITS
DRYING EFFECTS WILL NOT BE FELT IN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF
THE WORK WEEK.

.LONG TERM...
H500 RIDGE EXTENDS FROM SASKATCHEWAN TO WRN NEBRASKA ON THURSDAY AND
BUILDS EAST OVER THE DAKOTAS BY FRIDAY. WILL KEEP POPS OUT FOR THESE
2 DAYS...BUT BY FRIDAY NIGHT THE RIDGE BREAKS DOWN AS LARGE H500 LOW
MOVES INTO THE WESTERN DAKOTAS FROM BC/WA/OR. WILL GO WITH PREVIOUS
FORECAST WITH PRECIP CHANCES FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...AS H500 LOW
LIFTS NORTHEASTWARD BY SATURDAY NIGHT AND SURFACE COLD FRONT HAS
MOVED EASTWARD INTO THE RED RIVER VALLEY. AFTER THIS FEATURE THE
LARGE SYNOPTIC SCALE H500 RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE WESTERN CONUS FOR
DRY WEATHER ON SUNDAY.

&&

.BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

LEBLANG/VINING

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 3:22 AM CST, 17 hours 3 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
422 AM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-020921-
ADAMS ND-BILLINGS ND-BOTTINEAU ND-BOWMAN ND-BURKE ND-BURLEIGH ND-
DICKEY ND-DIVIDE ND-DUNN ND-EMMONS ND-FOSTER ND-GOLDEN VALLEY ND-
GRANT ND-HETTINGER ND-KIDDER ND-LA MOURE ND-LOGAN ND-MCHENRY ND-
MCINTOSH ND-MCKENZIE ND-MCLEAN ND-MERCER ND-MORTON ND-MOUNTRAIL ND-
OLIVER ND-PIERCE ND-RENVILLE ND-ROLETTE ND-SHERIDAN ND-SIOUX ND-
SLOPE ND-STARK ND-STUTSMAN ND-WARD ND-WELLS ND-WILLIAMS ND-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BISMARCK...BOTTINEAU...BOWMAN...CROSBY...
DICKINSON...JAMESTOWN...MINOT AND WILLISTON
422 AM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS SURFACE
LOW DEVELOPS OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND EASTERN MONTANA.  SOME
THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE CRITERIA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 1, 5:16 PM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
616 PM CDT SUN AUG 01 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0545 PM     HAIL             6 S MOTT                46.29N 102.32W
08/01/2004  1.00 INCH        HETTINGER          ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

VJR

Local storm report, Aug 1, 5:31 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
631 PM CDT SUN AUG 01 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0600 PM     HAIL             14 NE HAYNES            46.12N 102.26W
08/01/2004  1.00 INCH        ADAMS              ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            GROUND WHITE WITH HAIL

&&

VJR

Local storm report, Aug 1, 5:43 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
643 PM CDT SUN AUG 01 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0632 PM     HAIL             17 S ELGIN              46.16N 101.85W
08/01/2004  0.88 INCH        GRANT              ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

VJR

Local storm report, Aug 1, 5:59 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
659 PM CDT SUN AUG 01 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0640 PM     HAIL             50 W SELFRIDGE          46.04N 101.97W
08/01/2004  1.75 INCH        SIOUX              ND   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

VJR

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Bottineau

When: August 1, 8:25 PM CST
Where: Bottineau County, Newburg
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 48.717, -100.917

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Dakota in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings in North Dakota, August 2004

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: 5418077.