Hail, Cavalier
- When
- September 3, 10:45 PM CST
- Where
- Cavalier County, 5 mi W of Hannah
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.967, -98.800
Hail in North Dakota, September 3, 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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 3, 7:40 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 7:40 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 840 PM CDT FRI SEP 3 2004 FORECAST CHALLENGE CONCERNS TEMPERATURES AND RAIN CHANCES. CURRENT CONVECTION LIMITED TO NW FA WITH SCT T. NEXT UPSTREAM WAVE FROM WATER VAPOR LIFTING NORTHEAST THROUGH CENTRAL ROCKIES WITH LIGHTNING INCREASING OVER WYO INTO SW SD. WITH CURRENT BOUNDARY ORIENTED FROM LAKE OF THE WOODS SE THROUGH GFK TO N CENTRAL SD MOVING LITTLE OVERNIGHT EXPECT CONVECTION TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE OVER FA AFT MIDNIGHT. WILL MAINTAIN SCT MENTION FROM BOUNDARY WEST OVERNIGHT. WITH BOUNDARY HOLDING...CLOUDS...PCPN AND CU8RRENT DEWPOINTS MAY ADJUST MIN TEMPERATURES UP SLIGHTLY OVER NW FA OTWS CURRENT FORECAST SEEMS REASONABLE. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE. && VOELKER
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 3, 5:50 AM CST, 16 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 650 AM CDT FRI SEP 3 2004 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-031450- 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- 650 AM CDT FRI SEP 3 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALL BUT EXTREME EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND THE RED RIVER VALLEY SECTION OF WESTERN MINNESOTA TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS OVER ALL OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ON SATURDAY...THEN SHIFTS EAST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY FOR SATURDAY NIGHT...SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. NG
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Wildfire in California, September 3 to 4, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, September 3, 2004
- Rip Currents in New Jersey, September 3 to 7, 2004
- Wildfire in Oregon, September 3 to 4, 2004
- Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain in Arizona, September 3, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, September 3 to 4, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, September 3 to 4, 2004
- Rip Current in Delaware, September 3 to 7, 2004
- Waterspout in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, September 3, 2004
- Wildfire in California, September 3, 2004
- Wildfire in Colorado, September 3 to 4, 2004
- Hail in Michigan, September 3, 2004
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, September 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: 5424974.