Hail, Grant
- When
- May 21, 6:00 PM CST to 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Grant County, Carson
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 46.417, -101.567
Hail in North Dakota, May 21, 2004
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 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 May 21, 1:32 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 1:32 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 232 PM CDT FRI MAY 21 2004 .SHORT TERM... SOUTHWEST MID LEVEL FLOW...DOWNSTREAM OF A ROCKY MOUNTAIN TROUGH...WILL COMBINE WITH A MOIST EASTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW TO GENERATE SEVERAL EPISODES OF SHOWERS...AND PERHAPS A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO...DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD. PER THE ETA...THE BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN WILL BE IN THE WESTERN PORTION OF OUR FORECAST AREA....AND THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDER WILL BE IN THE SOUTHWEST THIRD. POWERFUL THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN SOUTH OF OUR FORECAST AREA...BECAUSE THE WARM FRONT WILL REMAIN WELL SOUTH...IN NEBRASKA AND IOWA. FREQUENT CLOUDINESS WILL HOLD DAYTIME TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL. .LONG TERM... LITTLE CHANGE IN LONG TERM. NORTHWEST FLOW THRU THE WEEK WITH SERIES SHORTWAVES RUNNING THRU THE FLOW PROVIDING A SMALL CHANCE OF SHOWERS EACH DAY. MAIN PROBLEM WILL BE TIMING OF EACH EVENT. COOL PATTERN THRU THE WEEK WITH A SLIGHT WARMUP BY END OF THE WEEK. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && LEBLANG/TURNER
Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 4:02 AM CST, 13 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 502 AM CDT FRI MAY 21 2004 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-221001- 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 502 AM CDT FRI MAY 21 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. VINING
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:00 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 21, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Iowa, May 21 to 22, 2004
- Tornado in Iowa, May 21, 2004
- Flooding in Michigan, May 21 to 23, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, May 21, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, May 21 to 22, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, May 21, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, May 21, 2004
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, May 21, 2004
- Flooding in Ohio, May 21 to 24, 2004
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, May 21, 2004
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, May 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: 5393881.