Hail in North Dakota, July 1, 2005

Name: Hail in North Dakota, July 1, 2005
Start: 2005-07-01T20:15
End: 2005-07-01T20:35
Location: North Dakota

July 1, 2005 · NWS BIS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 1, 2:20 PM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 2:20 PM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
320 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2005

.SHORT TERM...
00Z 4KM NSP WRF MODEL PROJECTS CONVECTION ENTERING OUR FAR WEST
AFTER 22Z...REACHING BIS/MOT BY 03Z AND THEN DYING OFF WITH THE LOSS
OF DAYTIME HEATING. ON THE OTHER HAND THE 12Z ETA TAKES THE CURRENT
CONVECTION ALONG THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER AND TURNS IS SOUTHWARD
INTO OUR NORTHEASTERN ZONES. THE MONTANA ACTIVITY IS HELD UP BY MID
LEVEL RIDGING SOUTH OF THE CANADIAN BORDER ONLY BECOMES A FACTOR ON
SATURDAY. HOWEVER ON SATURDAY THE ETA PUSHES THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE
TROUGH EAST OF BISMARCK BEFORE THE AFTERNOON CONVECTION FIRES UP.
THIS MAY LESSEN CHANCES FOR CONVECTION IN MY WESTERN ZONES SATURDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.LONG TERM...KEPT IN LOW POPS 12Z TUES THROUGH 12Z WED AS A WEAK
SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. GFS80 AND OTHER LONG
RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW A BROAD UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDING
OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. NORTHERN PLAINS REMAINS UNDER NORTHWEST
FLOW ALOFT FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EXTENDED.
EXPECT THIS PERIOD TO BE DRY AND TEMPERATURES TO SLOWLY INCREASE
EACH DAY...WITH THE WARMEST BEING FRIDAY AND INTO THE EARLY PART OF
THE WEEKEND AS THE RIDGE CREST MOVES OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS.

&&

.BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

RSL/NH

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 3:47 AM CST, 16 hours 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
447 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2005

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-020946-
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
447 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE LATE
SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY LATE SATURDAY.

JP MARTIN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 1, 7:28 PM CST, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
828 PM CDT FRI JUL 01 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0823 PM     TORNADO          3 N KENMARE             48.72N 102.08W
07/01/2005                   WARD               ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT KENMARE
            3N

&&

VROLLER

Local storm report, Jul 1, 7:34 PM CST, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
834 PM CDT FRI JUL 01 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0830 PM     HAIL             1 S LOSTWOOD            48.47N 102.42W
07/01/2005  1.50 INCH        MOUNTRAIL          ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

VROLLER

Local storm report, Jul 1, 8:03 PM CST, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
903 PM CDT FRI JUL 01 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0855 PM     HAIL             3 NNW STANLEY           48.36N 102.41W
07/01/2005  1.25 INCH        MOUNTRAIL          ND   CO-OP OBSERVER

            HAIL PILING UP IN DRIFTS 840 PM CDT TO 855 PM AND
            CONTINUING.

&&

VROLLER

Local storm report, Jul 1, 8:04 PM CST, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
904 PM CDT FRI JUL 01 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0858 PM     HAIL             3 N STANLEY             48.36N 102.39W
07/01/2005  1.50 INCH        MOUNTRAIL          ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LOTS OF HAIL PILING UP

&&

VROLLER

Local storm report, Jul 1, 8:05 PM CST, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
905 PM CDT FRI JUL 01 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0845 PM     HAIL             SHERWOOD                48.96N 101.63W
07/01/2005  0.75 INCH        RENVILLE           ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

VROLLER

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 8:15 PM CST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
915 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2005

NDZ001-009-017-020245-
DIVIDE-MCKENZIE-WILLIAMS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILLISTON...CROSBY AND WATFORD CITY
915 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FAR
NORTHWEST...

AT 910 PM CDT...THE COUNTIES OF DIVIDE...WILLIAMS...AND MCKENZIE HAVE
BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FAR NORTHWEST. THIS
INCLUDES THE CITIES OF WILLISTON...TIOGA...AND CROSBY.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 1 AM CDT FOR THE
REMAINDER OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.

ABELING

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Mountrail

When: July 1, 8:15 PM CST to 8:35 PM CST
Where: Mountrail County, 6 mi S of Stanley
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 48.233, -102.383

Wind gust to 40 mph and 1 inch rainfall accompanied the storm.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Dakota in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in North Dakota, July 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: 5465593.