Hail in North Dakota, July 21, 2005

Name: Hail in North Dakota, July 21, 2005
Start: 2005-07-21T16:26
End: 2005-07-21T17:00
Location: North Dakota

July 21, 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: 3
Property damage: $7.0 million
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, 13 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:10 AM CST, 13 hours 16 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, 12 hours 18 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 21, 11:42 AM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1242 PM CDT THU JUL 21 2005

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

1240 PM     HAIL             21 E WILLISTON          48.16N 103.18W
07/21/2005  1.00 INCH        WILLIAMS           ND   PUBLIC

            REPORTED AT LEWIS AND CLARK STATE PARK

&&

JC

Local storm report, Jul 21, 12:37 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
137 PM CDT THU JUL 21 2005

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

0125 PM     HAIL             7 NW PLAZA              48.10N 102.07W
07/21/2005  0.88 INCH        MOUNTRAIL          ND   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

VJENSEN

Local storm report, Jul 21, 12:46 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
146 PM CDT THU JUL 21 2005

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

0143 PM     HAIL             PLAZA                   48.03N 101.96W
07/21/2005  1.00 INCH        MOUNTRAIL          ND   PUBLIC

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN THE TOWN OF PLAZA. PUBLIC REPORT
            RELAYED BY LOCAL MEDIA.

&&

CJS/JC

Local storm report, Jul 21, 1:02 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
202 PM CDT THU JUL 21 2005

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

0151 PM     HAIL             5 E MAKOTI              47.96N 101.70W
07/21/2005  0.88 INCH        WARD               ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE RICE
            LAKE AREA OF WARD COUNTY.

0154 PM     HAIL             MAKOTI                  47.96N 101.81W
07/21/2005  0.88 INCH        WARD               ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE TOWN
            OF MAKOTI.

&&

CJS/JC

Local storm report, Jul 21, 1:21 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
221 PM CDT THU JUL 21 2005

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

0216 PM     HAIL             RYDER                   47.92N 101.67W
07/21/2005  0.88 INCH        WARD               ND   PUBLIC

            NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE TOWN OF RYDER.

&&

CJS/JC

Local storm report, Jul 21, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
245 PM CDT THU JUL 21 2005

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

0205 PM     HAIL             RYDER                   47.92N 101.67W
07/21/2005  1.75 INCH        WARD               ND   PUBLIC

            A FEW HAIL STONES TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS. PUBLIC REPORT
            RELAYED BY LOCAL MEDIA.

&&

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 167 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:27 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Adams

When: July 21, 4:26 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
Where: Adams County, Hettinger
Measured: 2.75 in hail
Injuries: 3 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $7.0 million
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 46.000, -102.633

Golfball to baseball size hail combined with 50 mph winds caused extensive damage to homes and vehicles. One hundred (100) vehicles at an automoble dealership sustained heavy damage. Two (2) persons were treated for minor cuts, abrasions and bruises at the Hettinger hospital as a result of the hail storm. A third person sustained minor cuts when the windows of her car were broken by the hail.

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

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5465791.