1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Jun 1, 2:10 PM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 310 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2005 .SHORT TERM... TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT... CONCERNS WILL BE STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT. UPPER LOW OVER SASKATCHEWAN WILL LIFT NORTHWARD TONIGHT. LOW LEVEL JET OF 25 TO 35 KTS ENHANCING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ACROSS CENTRAL ND WITH OVERRUNNING ACROSS WEAK WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN SRN ND. STRONG DYNAMIC SITUATION WITH STEEP LAPS RATES LIKELY AS TEMPS HAVE RISEN CLOSE TO 80 ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL ND. MODELS CURRENTLY SHOW A NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST PRECIP FORECAST AND THAT LOOKS GOOD CONSIDERING POSITION OF UPPER LEVEL JET AND ITS DIFFLUENT REGION. WILL KEEP HIGH HIGH PROBABILITIES ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND NORTH WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...AND HEAVY RAIN. THE FOCUS FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BY THURSDAY MORNING...BUT WILL KEEP A SMALL CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS GOING AS COLD AIR ALOFT WILL ENHANCE LAPSE RATES NORTH BUT SUBSIDENCE HINDERS CONVECTION ACROSS THE SOUTH. ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS UPPER LEVEL CYCLONIC FLOW AND COLD AIR MAINTAIN STEEP LAPSE RATES AND INSTABILITY. .LONG TERM... SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...ON SUNDAY AN UPPER LOW AND SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTHERN MANITOBA LIFTS NORTH GRADUALLY AS AN H500 SHORTWAVE RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. THIS WEAK RIDGE GIVES WAY TO A LARGE LOW MOVING INTO THE PLAINS FROM THE NORTHWEST CONUS COAST AND DOMINATES THE WEATHER PATTERN TUESDAY...WEDNESDAY...AND BEYOND THE LAST DAY OF THE EXTENDED FORECAST. EXPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WITH SEASONAL TEMPERATURES WITH HIGHS MAINLY IN THE 70S. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE && WAA/JV
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 322 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2005 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-022020- 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 322 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA BY EARLY EVENING...THEN CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED FROM LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. CJS/WAA
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
414 PM CDT WED JUN 01 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0411 PM HAIL 6 S SOURIS 48.82N 100.68W
06/01/2005 0.75 INCH BOTTINEAU ND CO-OP OBSERVER
PENNY SIZE HAIL ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL
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CJS/LLPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
723 PM CDT WED JUN 01 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 1 W GLENBURN 48.51N 101.24W
06/01/2005 RENVILLE ND LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTED BY DEPUTY SHERIFF
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CJS/LLPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
758 PM CDT WED JUN 01 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0755 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 10 SW MANDAN 46.73N 101.04W
06/01/2005 MORTON ND PUBLIC
SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS OBSERVED
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CJS/LLPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
819 PM CDT WED JUN 01 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0800 PM TSTM WND GST 9 N SELFRIDGE 46.17N 100.92W
06/01/2005 60 MPH SIOUX ND TRAINED SPOTTER
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CJS/LLPThe Bismarck radar (KBIS), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:32 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The tornado destroyed a barn. At one time there were two tornadoes on the ground at the same time from the same thunderstorm cell.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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