Hail, Wilkin
- When
- May 7, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Wilkin County, 4 mi NE of Brushvale
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 46.400, -96.583
Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, May 7, 2005
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 2
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 May 7, 7:55 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 7:55 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 855 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 .DISCUSSION...GRIDS/ZONES UPDATED TO DELAY AND CUT BACK ON THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TONIGHT. LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING IN SOUTHCENTRAL ND/NORTHEAST SD HAS BEEN WEAKENING LAST HOUR AND WE MIGHT BARELY SQUEAK BY WITHOUT A WARNING. BUT FIGURE GENERAL THUNDER WILL PERSIST SOUTHEAST ND AND THEN NOT SURE ABOUT OVERNIGHT SO LEFT MOST OF THE LIKELY CATEGORY. MUCH OF THE AREA IS COOLING A LITTLE QUICKER THAN EXPECTED AND ADJUSTED THAT TOO. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE. && GV
Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 5:15 AM CST, 16 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 615 AM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-071414- BARNES ND-BENSON ND-CASS ND-CAVALIER ND-CLAY MN-EAST BECKER MN- EAST MARSHALL MN-EAST OTTER TAIL MN-EAST POLK MN- EASTERN WALSH COUNTY ND-EDDY ND-GRAND FORKS ND-GRANT MN-GRIGGS ND- HUBBARD MN-KITTSON MN-LAKE OF THE WOODS MN-MAHNOMEN MN-NELSON ND- NORMAN MN-NORTH BELTRAMI MN-NORTH CLEARWATER MN-PEMBINA ND- PENNINGTON MN-RAMSEY ND-RANSOM ND-RED LAKE MN-RICHLAND ND-ROSEAU MN- SARGENT ND-SOUTH BELTRAMI MN-SOUTH CLEARWATER MN-STEELE ND-TOWNER ND- TRAILL ND-WADENA MN-WEST BECKER MN-WEST MARSHALL MN- WEST OTTER TAIL MN-WEST POLK MN-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY ND-WILKIN MN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEMIDJI...DETROIT LAKES...DEVILS LAKE... FARGO...FERGUS FALLS...GRAFTON...GRAND FORKS...LANGDON...ROSEAU... THIEF RIVER FALLS...VALLEY CITY AND WAHPETON 615 AM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 ...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND SUNDAY ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA. THE BEST CHANCE FOR STORMS WILL OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS HOWEVER AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. IN ADDITION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. BERG
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:31 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Grant
- When
- May 7, 9:35 PM CST
- Where
- Grant County, Wendell
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 46.033, -96.100
Trees and power lines were blown down and a garage was damaged.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 7, 2005
- Storm Surge and High Wind in Massachusetts, May 7, 2005
- Hail in South Dakota, May 7, 2005
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, May 7, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 7, 2005
- Storm Surge in Maine, May 7, 2005
- Flooding in Iowa, May 7 to 9, 2005
- High Wind in Rhode Island, May 7, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, May 7, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 7 to 8, 2005
- Hail in North Dakota, May 7, 2005
- Rip Current in Florida, May 7, 2005
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, May 2005
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: 5454218, 5454219.