Lightning, Dickey
- When
- August 25, 1:15 PM CST
- Where
- Dickey County, 5 mi N of Forbes
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 46.110, -98.505 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hay bales were started on fire by lightning strikes.
Lightning Strike in North Dakota, August 25, 2005
1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 25, 2:00 AM CST, 11 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:00 AM CST, 11 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 300 AM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN AND MANITOBA TODAY AND TONIGHT LIFTING A LITTLE AS IT MOVES EAST. THE SURFACE LOW IS STACKED BENEATH THE UPPER LEVEL LOW BUT THE SURFACE COLD FRONT HAS MOVED ACROSS THE STATE AND IS NOW IN EAST CENTRAL ND...AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST. DEWPOINTS BEHIND THE FRONT HAVE BEEN DROPPING SO ANY CHANCE OF TSTMS TODAY WILL BE ACROSS THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF THE FORECAST AREA NEAR THE FRONT. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE REPORTED ACROSS FAR NORTHERN MONTANA YESTERDAY AS MOISTURE WRAPPED AROUND THE SURFACE LOW. APPEARS THERE WILL BE A SIMILAR CHANCE OF PRECIP ACROSS THE FAR NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE FORECAST AREA TODAY. REST OF FORECAST PERIOD LOOKS DRY. WINDS IN THE WEST AND ESPECIALLY NORTHWEST WILL BE NEAR THE WIND ADVISORY RANGE THIS AFTERNOON...AND A LAKE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE LIKELY. WITH COLD ADVECTION BEHIND THE FRONT...SHOULD SEE COOLER TEMPS TODAY...ABOUT AS PREVIOUSLY FORECAST. COOL TEMPS SHOULD CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY...THEN A SLOW WARMING TREND AS RIDGING ALOFT SLOWLY MOVES INTO THE AREA. .LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT NO BIG CHANGES TO EXTENDED PACKAGE AS EXITING MID LEVEL LOW ALLOWS CENTRAL CONUS RIDGE TO BUILD NORTH OVER CANADIAN PRAIRIE PROVINCES EARLY IN EXTENDED. RIDGE SQUEEZED SOUTH AGAIN WITH NEXT APPROACHING SYSTEM ON TUESDAY. LINGERING CYCLONIC FLOW WITH DIFFICULT TO TIME S/WS THROUGH REMAINDER OF EXTENDED FOR SMALL CHANCE POPS AND SEASONABLE TEMPS. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && TSW/HW
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 4:18 AM CST, 8 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 518 AM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-261030- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD- MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS- FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER- STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN- LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 518 AM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 /418 AM MDT THU AUG 25 2005/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:15 UTC.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hurricane in Florida, August 25 to 26, 2005
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, August 25 to 26, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, August 25 to 26, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, August 25, 2005
- Hail in Colorado, August 25, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 25, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, August 25, 2005
- Hail in South Dakota, August 25, 2005
- Hail in Nebraska, August 25, 2005
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Missouri, August 25, 2005
- Hail in South Dakota, August 25, 2005
- Flash Flood in Missouri, August 25, 2005
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, August 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: 5470760.