Hail, McLean
- When
- July 7, 7:35 PM CST to 7:55 PM CST
- Where
- McLean County, 6 mi S of Roseglen
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 47.667, -101.833
Hail in North Dakota, July 7, 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 7, 1:30 PM CST, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 1:30 PM CST, 6 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 230 PM CDT THU JUL 7 2005 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT COLD FRONT ACROSS NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA INTO SOUTHEAST MONTANA THIS AFTERNOON WILL BECOME QUASI-STATIONARY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST TONIGHT. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM ALONG COLD FRONT THEN MOVE EAST AS MOD LEVEL SHORTWAVE/SPEEDMAX MOVES INTO THE REGION. SUFFICIENT CAPE AND MID LEVEL WINDS FOR LARGE MCS SYSTEM TO PROPAGATE EASTWARD THEN SOUTHEAST INTO SCNTRL/SERN ND BY MORNING. WITH K INDEX ABOVE 35 WILL KEEP MENTION OF SEVERE WITH HEAVY RAIN. MEANWHILE...H5 RIDGE WILL BUILD INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST WILL RETREAT AS HEAT BUILDS INTO THE REGION FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THIS OLD/WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BECOME ACTIVE BY FRIDAY NIGHT...BUT BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS STRONGER SHORTWAVE MOVES THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS. WILL LIKELY SEE VERY WARM TEMPERATURES ON SATURDAY. .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT H500 VORT ENERGY AND TAIL END OF UPPER TROUGH MOVES EAST MONDAY MORNING...SO KEPT MENTION OF MORNING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EAST. H500 RIDGE BUILDS QUITE STRONG FROM THE WESTERN CONUS INTO THE PLAINS ON MONDAY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THE H500 RIDGE PUSHES NORTHWARD WELL INTO THE CANADIAN ROCKIES RESULTING IN A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT OVER THE STATE. THIS WOULD KEEP TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S AND 90S OVER NORTH DAKOTA...WITH HIGHER TEMPERATURES TO THE SOUTHWEST. SOME SURFACE AIR FLOW FROM CANADA SHOULD KEEP DEWPOINT TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S TO MID 60S...RATHER THAN HIGHER DEWPOINT (HIGHER HUMIDITY) AIR MOVING UP THE PLAINS FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && WAA/JV
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 4:00 AM CST, 15 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 500 AM CDT THU JUL 7 2005 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-080959- 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 500 AM CDT THU JUL 7 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WARM TEMPERATURES AND HIGH DEWPOINTS WILL CAUSE DEEP INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON WITH A WEAK CAP. PRECIPITABLE WATER WILL BE AN INCH OR MORE WITH A K-INDEX OF AROUND 35 INDICATING POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN. A WEAK TROUGH WILL MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA PROVIDING A WEAK CONVERGENT ZONE...LEADING TO THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
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
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Maryland, July 7 to 8, 2005
- Tornado in North Carolina, July 7, 2005
- Rip Current in Florida, July 7, 2005
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 7, 2005
- Tornado in North Carolina, July 7, 2005
- Wildfire in Arizona, July 7 to 21, 2005
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, July 7, 2005
- Tornado in South Carolina, July 7, 2005
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, July 7, 2005
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, July 7, 2005
- Tornado in North Carolina, July 7, 2005
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 7, 2005
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: 5465673.