1 hail, 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 7, 2:00 AM CST, 14 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 300 AM CDT SAT AUG 7 2004 .SHORT TERM... ACTIVE THUNDERSTORM DAY ON TAP AS STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHES EAST ACROSS THE STATE...WITH A PRECEDING UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH CAPES OF 1500-3500 J/KG. A BLEND OF ETA/NGM/GFS PUTS THE FRONT ABOUT 60 MILES WEST OF A MINOT/BISMARCK LINE AT MAX HEATING (22Z). I EXPECT STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP AT THAT TIME AND MOVE EAST ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA DURING THE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME HOURS. ON SUNDAY WRAP AROUND MOISTURE AND COLD MID LEVEL TEMPS WILL BE ENOUGH TO KICK OFF SOME INSTABILITY SHOWERS OR THUNDERSHOWERS...WITH THE BEST CHANCE IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE STATE. ON MONDAY...COLD AIR ALOFT AND LINGERING MOISTURE FROM THE...SLOW TO DEPART...MID LEVEL LOW...WILL MAKE FOR A PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY DAY AS DIURNAL CU FIELDS DEVELOP AND SPREAD OUT OVER MOST OF OUR REGION BY AFTERNOON. .LONG TERM... UPPER LEVEL LOW BEGINS TO MOVE EASTWARD ON TUESDAY...BUT COULD BE A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA. OTHERWISE...IT LOOKS DRY WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD OVER THE ROCKIES. NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL KEEP COOL HIGH PRESSURE OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. SO...EXPECT TEMPS TO BE MAINLY BELOW NORMAL...BUT RETURNING TO NEAR NORMAL BY FRIDAY. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && LEBLANG/FORS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 341 AM CDT SAT AUG 7 2004 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-080840- 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 341 AM CDT SAT AUG 7 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
331 PM CDT SAT AUG 07 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0322 PM HAIL 6 NNE BOWMAN 46.26N 103.35W
08/07/2004 0.88 INCH BOWMAN ND LAW ENFORCEMENT
0322 PM HAIL SSW AMIDON 46.48N 103.32W
08/07/2004 0.88 INCH SLOPE ND LAW ENFORCEMENT
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SWThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A one mile swath of large hail damaged or destroyed 10,000 acres of crops. Estimated damage of 75 to 100 percent loss.
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: 5418081.