Name: Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 11, 2004
Start: 2004-07-11T20:25
End: 2004-07-11T20:35
Location: North Dakota

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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.

A line of severe thunderstorms moved over western Golden Valley County causing widespread damage from Beach to Golva. Grain bins were domolished, buildings collapsed, downed power and telephone lines and numerous tree damage.

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 11, 1:00 PM CST, 7 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 1:00 PM CST, 7 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
200 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004

.SHORT TERM...
PROBLEMS AGAIN TODAY INCLUDE PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS...TIMING AND
LOCATIONS. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH MOST FIELDS WITH
DIFFERENCES IN AXIS OF HEAVY PRECIPITATION PROGGD BY ALL MODELS. GFS
SIGNIFICANTLY FARTHER SOUTH WITH THIS AXIS WHILE ETA HAS MOVED
HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION ALONG AND NORTH OF CANADIAN BORDER...FARTHER
NORTH THAN 00Z AND 06Z SOLUTIONS.  SURFACE LOW PRESSURE FROM EASTERN
ALTA TO NORTHERN WY ON MSAS IN BETTER AGREEMENT WITH GFS SOLUTION.
GFS QPF AFFECTED WITH CONVECTION FEEDBACK BUT WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW
GFS LOCATION AND HAVE ADDED A FEW MORE SOUTH CENTRAL COUNTIES TO
ONGOING FLOOD WATCH. SURFACE TROUGH THROUGH STATE TONIGHT WITH
LINGERING CONVECTION...POSSIBLY SEVERE...CONTINUING INTO EARLY AM ON
MONDAY. HAVE DELETED SLIGHT CHANCE THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY AS RIDGE
BUILDS AND CWA REMAINS IN DRIER NORTHWEST FLOW SURFACE AND ALOFT ON
EAST SIDE OF RIDGE AXIS.

.LONG TERM...
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...H500 NORTHWEST FLOW BEGINS TO TURN MORE
ZONAL...EVEN A BIT SOUTHWEST BEGINNING ON SATURDAY...AS LOW PRESSURE
IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BEGINS TO DIG...FLATTENING THE RIDGE. 00Z
GFS GENERATES A SERIES OF SURFACE LOWS TO MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHERN
PLAINS FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ECMWF NOT IN GOOD AGREEMENT...AND SO I
JUST LEFT POPS AS IS UNTIL THE NEXT RUN. GRIDS STILL IN GOOD
COORDINATION AND MADE FEW CHANGES.

&&

.BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING UNTIL 14Z CENTRAL.

&&

HW/SHULZ

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 3:28 AM CST, 16 hours 57 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
428 AM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-120927-
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 SUN JUL 11 2004

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN
WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND SPREAD EAST IN THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
OVERNIGHT IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. THE PRIMARY THREAT
FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...LARGE
HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

RGT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 11, 3:53 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
453 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004

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

0730 PM     HAIL             2 N STEELE              46.88N 99.92W
07/10/2004  1.00 INCH        KIDDER             ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            7 MINUTE DURATION. ENDED AT 737 PM CDT.

&&

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 244 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:23 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Golden Valley

When: July 11, 8:25 PM CST to 8:35 PM CST
Where: Golden Valley County, Beach
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 46.917, -104.000

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

More

Every storm in North Dakota in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5412391.