1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 7, 1:40 PM CST, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 240 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 .SHORT TERM... MAIN CONCERNS ARE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLASH FLOODING TONIGHT. A SURFACE LOW CENTERED IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL CAUSE EASTERLY WINDS AND AMPLE MOISTURE TONIGHT. A SHORT WAVE OVER COLORADO WILL ROTATE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST INTO NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT AND THEN DEVELOP INTO A SMALL INTENSE CLOSED LOW. COOLING ALOFT AND A CONTINUING SUPPLY OF MOISTURE IN LOWER LAYERS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL END WEDNESDAY AS THE SURFACE LOW MOVES NORTHEAST OUT OF THE AREA AND UPPER RIDGING STARTS IN THE SOUTHWEST. BUT THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS SOUTHWEST FLOW AND SHORT WAVES RESUME. .LONG TERM... LONG RANGE MODELS SIMILAR WITH UNSTABLE WEATHER THROUGH THE LONG TERM. SERIES OF SHORTWAVES AND TROUGHS MOVING THROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO BRING THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO THE REGION. MADE LITTLE CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... && LM/RGT
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 413 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-080912- 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 413 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...THEN MOVE NORTH INTO SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...SPREADING INTO THE NORTH WEST AND NORTH CENTRAL BY EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
835 PM CDT TUE JUN 07 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0828 PM FLASH FLOOD SELFRIDGE 46.04N 100.92W
06/07/2005 SIOUX ND LAW ENFORCEMENT
FLASH FLOODING WAS OCCURRING ALONG HIGHWAY 6 FROM THE
JUNCTION OF HIGHWAY 21 SOUTHWARD TO THE SOUTH DAKOTA
BORDER. SHERIFF ADVISES NO TRAVEL HERE. ROADWAY UNDER
WATER IN MANY PLACES.
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VJENSENThe Bismarck radar (KBIS), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:58 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Pole barn destroyed. Hail to 1 inch in diameter accompanied the winds.
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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: 5451768.