Flash Flood, Renville
- When
- July 10, 1:15 AM CST to 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- Renville County, 7 mi S of Mohall
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.719, -101.658 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in North Dakota, July 10, 2004
70 inches fell and caused water to flow over roads into farm yard and basement of home.
Where it happened
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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 happened
The episode as NWS BIS wrote it up.
Rainfall of 2.70 inches fell and caused water to flow over roads into farm yard and basement of home.
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 Jul 9, 2:00 PM CST, 11 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:00 PM CST, 11 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 300 PM CDT FRI JUL 9 2004 .SHORT TERM... A DIRTY RIDGE WILL INFLUENCE THE WEATHER THROUGH MOST OF THE SHORT TERM PERIOD. THE RIDGE WILL INCREASE SLIGHTLY TONIGHT AS A SHORT WAVE ROUNDS ITS TOP. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN IN THE WEST BY MIDNIGHT AND SPREAD TO THE CENTRAL BY MORNING. THEN DEW POINTS WILL RISE THROUGH THE 50S SATURDAY AND THE GFS SHOWS ANOTHER SHORT WAVE ENTERING THE WEST BY EVENING. THE FORECASTED K INDEX IS HIGH AND HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE CENTRAL. RIDGING LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY WILL BRING A BRIEF PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER...BUT ANOTHER SHORT WAVE WILL RETURN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BY AFTERNOON. THEN A SERIES OF WAVES WILL MAINTAIN A CHANCE OF CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ON TUESDAY THE H500 RIDGE IS TO THE WEST WITH NWLY FLOW ALOFT OVER ND...BUT THE GFS CONTINUES TO BRING A SMALL VORT/SHORTWAVE THROUGH THE RIDGE AND WILL KEEP LOW PRECIP CHANCES IN THE WEST ON TUESAY AFTERNOON. THE WESTERN RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD NEXT WEEK AND NORTH DAKOTA IS ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF THIS RIDGE. THIS WILL ALLOW SEASONABLE MAX TEMPS IN THE 80S WITH LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S. ON FRIDAY THE GFS SHOWS A RIPPLE OR FLATTENING OF THE RIDGE AND VORT ENERGY MOVING THROUGH...SO INTRODUCED PRECIP ON FRIDAY NIGHT. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && LM/VINING
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 3:28 AM CST, 21 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 428 AM CDT FRI JUL 9 2004 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-100927- 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 428 AM CDT FRI JUL 9 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SURFACE TROUGH OVER EASTERN MONTANA WILL BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY BY LATE AFTERNOON. A MOIST UNSTABLE SOUTHEAST FLOW AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL AIDE IN THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA BY THE EARLY EVENING WITH STORMS SPREADING EAST OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUST AS THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY INCREASING INSTABILITY IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY OVER EASTERN MONTANA AND WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA ON SATURDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO RE DEVELOP ALONG THIS BOUNDARY LATE SATURDAY AND SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. RGT
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 10, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 10, 2004
- Heat in Missouri, July 10 to 13, 2004
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 10, 2004
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 10, 2004
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 10, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 10, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Nebraska, July 10 to 11, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 10, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 2004
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 10, 2004
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, July 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: 5412497.