1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 1, 1:10 PM CST, 12 hours earlier.
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 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.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
937 PM CDT SUN AUG 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0925 PM HAIL NEWBURG 48.71N 100.91W
08/01/2004 1.00 INCH BOTTINEAU ND PUBLIC
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TWHSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1012 PM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004 NDZ003>005-010>013-018>023-025-033>037-041-042-044>048-050-051- 020309- A MCHENRY ND-MCINTOSH ND-MCLEAN ND-MERCER ND-MORTON ND-MOUNTRAIL ND- OLIVER ND-PIERCE ND-RENVILLE ND-ROLETTE ND-SHERIDAN ND-SIOUX ND- STARK ND-STUTSMAN EAN ND-MERCER ND-MORTON ND-MOUNTRAIL ND- OLIVER ND-PIERCE ND-RENVILLE ND-ROLETTE ND-SHERIDAN ND-SIOUX ND- STARK ND-STUTSMAN ND-WARD ND-WELLS ND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BISMARCK...BOTTINEAU...DICKINSON... JAMESTOWN AND MINOT 1012 PM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 680 ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MOST OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. TWH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1059 PM CDT SUN AUG 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1022 PM TSTM WND DMG RUGBY 48.37N 99.99W
08/01/2004 PIERCE ND BROADCAST MEDIA
TREE BLOWN DOWN
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TWHThe Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:11 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees uprooted, numerous branches broken, roofs peeled off trailers, homes and lake cabins.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Dakota in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, August 2004
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: 5418074.