Name: Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 19, 2005
Start: 2005-08-19T05:40
End: 2005-08-19T05:40
Location: North Dakota

Where it happened

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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 Aug 19, 2:17 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 2:17 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
317 AM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005

.SHORT TERM...
SFC MAP SHOWS WEAK BOUNDARY LOCATED ALONG A ROSEAU-MAYVILLE TO
FORMAN ND LINE WITH SOUTH WINDS AND DEW PTS IN THE MID 60S EAST OF
THIS BOUNDARY AND NORTHWEST WINDS AND DEW PTS IN THE 50S WEST OF
THIS BOUNDARY. NOT REAL PLEASED WITH HOW 00Z RUN OF GFS/NAM
HANDLING CURRENT WX. YESTERDAYS 00Z GFS INDICATING SHORT WAVE AND
PCPN BLOB HEADED FOR SE ND LOOKS LIKE THE WINNER. SHORT WAVE ON
WATER VAPOR OVER CNTRL SD MOVING NORTHEAST. WILL NEED TO INCLUDE
LIKELY POPS THRU NOON FOR MOST AREAS (ALL BUT DVL ZONE) WHERE 30
POPS WILL SUFFICE. SYSTEM IS MOVING SUFFICIENTLY FAST AND ECHOES
ARE NOT THAT STRONG....SO WIDESPREAD 1+ INCH RAINS NOT
ANTICIPATED. USED HPC QPF GRIDDS FOR LOCAL QPF GRIDDS WHICH
INDICATE GENERAL ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTERS INCH SE ND INTO
NW/WCNTRL MN. LOOKS LIKE MAIN ACTION OVER WITH IN ERN ND BY
18Z....BUT CONTINUING OVER WCNTRL MN THIS AFTN.

ALSO...WIDESPREAD DENSE FOG HAS FORMED OVER THE PKD/ADC AREAS SO
WILL INCLUDE A MENTION OF FOG THRU 14Z IN GRIDDS. ONCE CLOUDS
MOVING IN SHOULD SEE SOME IMPROVING VSBYS.

MAIN COLD FRONT WILL PASS TONIGHT.  00Z NAM QPF OVER ERN ND THIS
EVENING SEEMS TOO HIGH. WILL INCLUDE SOME SHOWER THREAT WITH FRONT
THOUGH UPSTREAM IN ERN MT NOT MUCH THERE.

UPPER LEVEL LOW TO PASS NORTH OF AREA LATE TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY
MORNING....WITH WRAPAROUND CLOUDS LIKELY OVER NE 1/2 OF FCST AREA
ON SATURDAY WITH SOME DECREASE IN CLDS SAT AFTN AS COLD POOL MOVES
AWAY. KEPT THREAT FOR -SHRA CLOSE TO UPR LOW IN LAKE OF WOODS
REGION.

HIGH TO BUILD IN SAT NIGHT THRU SUNDAY. SAT NIGHT WILL BE
SEASONABLY COOL WITH LOWS IN THE 40S ALL AREAS. PLEASANT ON SUNDAY
WITH LIGHT WINDS AND HIGH TEMPS IN THE UPR 60S TO MID 70S.

.LONG TERM...
NO CHANGES NEEDED. WARMING TREND MON-TUE AS 500 MB RIDGE BUILDS
INTO AREA AHD OF NEXT TROUGH AND SFC LOW/FRONT DUE TO IMPACT AREA
WED. SOME TIMING ISSUES RUN TO RUN...BUT OVERALL BEST THREAT IS ON
WED-WED NIGHT. DID JUST GO -SHRA INSTEAD OF THUNDER ON THURSDAY AS
AREA BEHIND FRONT AND NR 500 MB TROUGH AND COOLER SFC AIRMASS.

&&

.AVIATION...
ANOTHER HODGEPODGE TODAY. AREAS OF LOW CLOUDS THIS MORNING MIXED
IN WITH SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. FEEL THAT BY LATE MORNING
MOST CLOUDS WILL BE IN THE 3000 TO 5000 FT RANGE AT TAF SITES.
WILL END THREAT FOR PCPN AT FAR/GFK BY 16Z.

&&

.FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ND...NONE.
MN...NONE.
&&

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The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:42 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Richland

When: August 19, 5:40 AM CST
Where: Richland County, 2 mi SW of Fairmount
Measured: 55 kt (63 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 46.033, -96.633

Large branches were blown down.

What these are

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.

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The same day elsewhere

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: 5472181.