Thunderstorm Wind, Oliver
- When
- July 10, 3:25 PM CST to 3:40 PM CST
- Where
- Oliver County, Countywide
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 47.133, -101.417
Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 10, 2004
A severe thunderstorm moved west to east across Oliver county producing damaging winds and golf ball size hail. Seven (7) rural farmsteads were damaged along with 900 acres of crops.
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 happened
The episode as NWS BIS wrote it up.
A severe thunderstorm moved west to east across Oliver county producing damaging winds and golf ball size hail. Seven (7) rural farmsteads were damaged along with 900 acres of crops.
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 10, 1:10 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 1:10 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 210 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 2004 .SHORT TERM... PROBLEMS TODAY INCLUDE PRECIPITATION LOCATIONS AND AMOUNTS. VERY MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE WITH TD/S APPROACHING 70 DEGREES...PW 1.5+ AND K-INDEX OVER 40. COLD FRONT PUSHING SOUTHEAST OVER NORTHWESTERN ZONES WHILE WARM FRONT APPROACHING FROM SOUTH. THETA-E RIDGE THROUGH EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. WITH DEVELOPING CONVECTION SOUTH OF BORDER DRAWING A BEAD ON SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...WILL MATCH EASTERN AND SOUTHEAST CWAS WITH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST PORTION OF CWA. EXCESSIVE RAINFALLS LAST WEEK HAVE DROPPED FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE TO LESS THAN 2 INCHES IN PLACES. SUPERCELL PASSING EAST OF CWA WAS DROPPING 2+ INCHES IN LESS THAN 20 MINUTES FROM FGF REPORTS. VERY MOIST AND WARM AIRMASS CONTINUES OVER NORTHERN PLAINS INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. STRONG S/W NORTH OF BORDER FLATTENS RIDGE BY END OF WEEKEND BUT RIDGE REBOUNDS WITH ITS PASSAGE .LONG TERM... UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES IN WEST...KEEPING THE NORTHERN PLAINS IN NORTHWEST FLOW. UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...BUT NO EVIDENT RIDGE RIDERS UNTIL FRIDAY...WHEN SHORTWAVE BUCKLES THE RIDGE. THIS WILL BRING THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...MAINLY CENTRAL AND EASTERN CWA. GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGHOUT EXTENDED...85-90 DEGREES. VERY FEW CHANGES TO GRIDS NEEDED. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING UNTIL 11Z SOUTHCENTRAL. && HW/SHULZ
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 3:37 AM CST, 11 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 437 AM CDT SAT JUL 10 2004 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-110936- 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 437 AM CDT SAT JUL 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY ALONG THE NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. RGT
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:22 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
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: 5412488.