Hail, Logan
- When
- August 17, 3:05 PM CST to 3:09 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 5 mi S of Gackle
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 46.567, -99.133
Hail in North Dakota, August 17, 2005
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 Aug 17, 1:36 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:36 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 236 PM CDT WED AUG 17 2005 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT... MAIN CONCERN IS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. CURRENT RADAR PICS SHOW CONVECTION IN UPPER TROUGH FROM WELLS COUNTY THROUGH BISMARCK TO WESTERN SIOUX COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP IN SURFACE WARM SECTOR ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE UPPER TROUGH. CAPE AND SHEAR SUGGEST LARGE HAIL. UPPER WAVE SHOULD MOVE OUT OF THE CWA BY 02Z. LATER TONIGHT A DEEP UPPER LOW CENTERED IN SASKATCHEWAN WILL MOVE EAST RESULTING IN SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH A SHORT WAVE FOR WESTERN ND. THE SOUTHWEST FLOW AND SHORT WAVES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. THE MAIN TROUGH AXIS WILL PASS THROUGH THE REGION FRIDAY NIGHT CAUSING PRECIP TO END. .LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT... NO MAJOR CHANGES TO EXTENDED FORECAST. MODELS ARE HINTING AT SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT EARLY TO MID NEXT WEEK...WHICH WOULD PUT THE FORECAST AREA IN A FAVORABLE EVENING/NIGHTLY THUNDERSTORM PATTERN. HOWEVER...FAILURE OF MODEL RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY AND DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN EXTENDED MODELS WARRANTS NO CHANGES AT THIS TIME. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL UNTIL 10 PM CDT. && LM/NH
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 4:01 AM CST, 11 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 501 AM CDT WED AUG 17 2005 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-181001- ADAMS-BILLINGS-BOTTINEAU-BOWMAN-BURKE-BURLEIGH-DICKEY-DIVIDE-DUNN- EMMONS-FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-GRANT-HETTINGER-KIDDER-LA MOURE-LOGAN- MCHENRY-MCINTOSH-MCKENZIE-MCLEAN-MERCER-MORTON-MOUNTRAIL-OLIVER- PIERCE-RENVILLE-ROLETTE-SHERIDAN-SIOUX-SLOPE-STARK-STUTSMAN-WARD- WELLS-WILLIAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILLISTON...MINOT...JAMESTOWN... DICKINSON...CROSBY...BOWMAN...BOTTINEAU...BISMARCK...MANDAN... WATFORD CITY...WASHBURN...STANLEY...RUGBY...MOTT...MEDORA...LINTON... HETTINGER...HARVEY...ELLENDALE...CARRINGTON...BEULAH...BELCOURT... BEACH AND ASHLEY 501 AM CDT WED AUG 17 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SOME OF THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING WILL LIKELY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A COUPLE OF STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS FOR A TIME THIS MORNING. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORM REDEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE REGION...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. VINING
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 17, 1:31 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
231 PM CDT WED AUG 17 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0230 PM HAIL STEELE 46.86N 99.92W
08/17/2005 1.00 INCH KIDDER ND LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
SWICHEThe radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:06 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 17 to 18, 2005
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Georgia, August 17, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, August 17, 2005
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 17, 2005
- Heat in Mississippi, August 17 to 26, 2005
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, August 17, 2005
- Flash Flood in North Dakota, August 17, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 17, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 17, 2005
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 17, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 17, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 17, 2005
More
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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: 5470742.