Hail, Williams
- When
- July 21, 7:15 AM CST to 7:16 AM CST
- Where
- Williams County, 15 mi NNE of Williston
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.350, -103.500
Hail in North Dakota, July 21, 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 Jul 21, 3:10 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:10 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 410 AM CDT THU JUL 21 2005 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT SURFACE TROUGH OVER CENTRAL MONTANA/WYOMING IS PROGGED TO MOVE EAST TO THE WESTERN BORDERS OF THE DAKOTAS BY 18Z...A SLOWER PROGRESSION THAN YESTERDAYS MODEL RUNS. THUS WILL MAKE A CHANGE IN THE FORECASTED WINDS TODAY AS WELL AS INTRODUCE PRECIP CHANCES TO THE WESTERN COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. THE TROUGH WILL BE THE FOCUS OF THUNDERSTORM INITIATION...WITH PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AVAILABLE AS DEWPOINTS INCREASE AHEAD OF THE TROUGH. CAPE VALUES INCREASE TO 500 TO OVER 1000 THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WHOLE FORECAST AREA. HAVE MENTIONED POSSIBLY SEVERE WORDING AS PER PREVIOUS FORECAST...BUT NOW INCLUDES THE WESTERN COUNTIES AS WELL. THE TROUGH IS PROGGED TO REMAIN IN THE CENTRAL DAKOTAS THIS EVENING AND MOVE SLOWLY EAST AND WEAKEN OVERNIGHT. FRIDAY WILL SEE ANOTHER LOW DEVELOPING IN THE LEE OF THE ROCKIES WITH STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS OVER THE DAKOTAS AND KEEPING DEWPOINTS INTO THE 60S. THIS LOW/TROUGH IS FORECAST TO APPROACH THE WESTERN BORDER OF THE DAKOTAS AFTER MIDNIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT AND MOVING INTO CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA BY DAYBREAK ON SATURDAY. PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND CAPE TO WORK WITH...AND EXPECT A LATE FRIDAY NIGHT/EARLY SATURDAY MORNING ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...FOR THE WHOLE FORECAST AREA. THE TIMING OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE TROUGH IS KEY FOR TIMING OF PRECIPITATION. .LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS THE STATE ON LATE SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WITH GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIFLUENCE AND SURFACE MOISTURE ADVECTION. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF TSTMS IN THE FORECAST BEGINNING SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. THE TROUGH DEEPENS AS IT MOVES EAST MONDAY NIGHT AS STRONG RIDGE DEVELOPS OVER THE WEST COAST...PUTTING ND IN A DRY NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WITH TEMPS GENERALLY AT OR BELOW NORMAL. LITTLE CHANGE TO ONGOING FORECAST AND ADDED A DRY AND SEASONABLE DAY 8 TO PACKAGE. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && VINING/WETZEL
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 4:08 AM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 508 AM CDT THU JUL 21 2005 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-221006- 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 508 AM CDT THU JUL 21 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE... FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. VINING
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Heat in Missouri, July 21 to 26, 2005
- Heat in Kentucky, July 21 to 26, 2005
- Heat in Illinois, July 21 to 26, 2005
- Hail in North Dakota, July 21, 2005
- Heat in Kansas, July 21 to 25, 2005
- Hail in North Dakota, July 21, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, July 21, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 21, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 21, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 21, 2005
- Lightning Strikes in Indiana, July 21, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Mississippi, July 21, 2005
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5465783.