2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 29, 7:15 PM CST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 815 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 FORECAST CHALLENGE CONCERNS MAINLY TSRA THREAT AND HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. NUMEROUS SHORTWAVES CONTINUE TO EJECT OUT OF WESTERN TROUGH AFFECTING CENTRAL US TONIGHT. 40-50KT LOW LEVEL JET TO GRADUALLY SHIFT EAST WHICH SHOULD KEEP CURRENT TSRA ONGOING OVERNIGHT MAINLY FROM VALLEY EAST. IR LOOP CONTINUES TO SHOW COOLING TOPS OVER FA. STRONGEST CONVECTION AND RESULTING HEAVY RAIN THREAT CURRENTLY OVER EXTREME SE ND/WEST CENTRAL MN VCNTY SFC LOW AND WARM FRONT AND WILL SHIFT INTO WEST CENTRAL POSSIBLY NW MN DURING THE OVERNIGHT. WITH LOW LEVEL JET SHIFTING EAST FEEL DVL BASIN MAY ESCAPE HEAVY RAIN THREAT. WITH UPSTREAM CONVECTION AND INVERTED TROUGH STILL TO OUR WEST AM HOWEVER HESITANT TO PULL FLOOD WATCH AND WILL KEEP GOING ACROSS ENTIRE FA. WITH CLOUDS AND CONTINUED WARM ADVECTION TEMPERATURES NOT LIKELY TO DROP MUCH OVERNIGHT AND HANDLED WELL BY ONGOING FORECAST. ADJUSTMENTS TO UPDATE WILL BE MINOR AND WILL HOLD OFF ON UPDATE UNTIL SVR WATCH DECISIONS COME UP AFT 9 PM. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. MN...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. && NOTE...EFFECTIVE 1200 UTC JUNE 8TH THE AWIPS PRODUCT IDENTIFIER /PID/ FOR THE AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION ISSUED BY WFO EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS WILL CHANGE FROM BISAFDFAR TO BISAFDFGF. THE WMO CODE WILL REMAIN FXUS63 KFGF. VOELKER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 700 AM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-291440- BARNES-BENSON-CASS-CAVALIER-CLAY-EAST BECKER-EAST MARSHALL- EAST OTTER TAIL-EAST POLK-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-GRAND FORKS- GRANT-GRIGGS-HUBBARD-KITTSON-LAKE OF THE WOODS-MAHNOMEN-NELSON- NORMAN-NORTH BELTRAMI-NORTH CLEARWATER-PEMBINA-PENNINGTON-RAMSEY- RANSOM-RED LAKE-RICHLAND-ROSEAU-SARGENT-SOUTH BELTRAMI- SOUTH CLEARWATER-STEELE-TOWNER-TRAILL-WADENA-WEST BECKER- WEST MARSHALL-WEST OTTER TAIL-WEST POLK-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-WILKIN- 700 AM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 ...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON SUNDAY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA... NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS FORECAST THROUGHOUT EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ALONG WITH NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM VALLEY CITY TO PARK RAPIDS. THE AREA IS ON THE NORTHERN FRINGE OF A LARGE STORM SYSTEM WELL TOWARD THE SOUTH AND A WARM FRONT EXTENDING THROUGH EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. LOCAL FLOOD OR FLASH FLOODING COULD ALSO OCCUR IN SOME OF THE STRONGER AND SLOWER MOVING STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST INTO SUNDAY. FLOODING COULD STILL BE A PROBLEM DEPENDING ON WHERE HEAVY RAIN ACCUMULATES ON SATURATED SOILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FGF/INDEX.HTML (ALL LOWER CASE) GV
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:41 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Two to three inches of rain fell over portions of Richland county. County road 15 from Great Bend to one mile south of Great Bend was under water. Several other roads were closed and some basements were flooded.
Two to three inches of rain fell over portions of Sargent county. Several roads were closed and basements were flooded.
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, May 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: 5401211, 5401212.