3 tornado, 2 hail, 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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 1:00 PM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 200 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 ...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE CONCERNS CONVECTIVE POP CHANCES THIS EVENING AND THEN PERIODIC THREATS REMAINDER OF PERIOD... .CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW... 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS DEPICTED LOW PRESSURE OVER SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA WITH STRONGEST PRESSURE FALLS OVER MANITOBA PROVINCE STILL SUGGESTING FEATURE SHOULD LIFT OFF TO THE NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN ADDITION GOOD RISE/FALL COUPLET NOTED OVER EASTERN MINNESOTA. LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATED 250MB JET MAX FROM THE CENTRAL ROCKIES TO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. STRONG VORTICITY MAXIMA EVIDENT IN LEFT EXIT REGION OF UPPER LEVEL JET OVER SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-SAT)... AS LOW PRESSURE LIFT NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN CANADA LATE THIS AFTN AND EVE ASSOCIATED NW/SE ORIENTATED SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL ROTATE NORTHEAST ACROSS MINNESOTA INTO WISCONSIN BY LATER TONIGHT. DRY PUNCH CURRENTLY LIFTING NORTHEAST FROM SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA WILL PROMOTE RAPID ATMOSPHERIC DESTABILIZATION LEADING TO MODERATE INSTABILITY MAINLY FROM THE CENTRAL RED RIVER VALLEY TO POINTS SOUTH AND EAST. THIS COUPLED WITH APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL JET SHOULD LEAD TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLY SEVERE BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON FROM THE RED RIVER VALLEY EAST. EXPECT INITIAL SUPERCELLS THAT DO DEVELOP TO FORM INTO A LINE SEGMENT THIS EVENING AND TAKE PROGRESSIVE ROUTE EAST OUT OF CWFA BEFORE MIDNIGHT. BREAK IN ACTION EXPECTED ON THURSDAY AS VERTICALLY STACKED LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO LIFT NORTHEAST INTO CANADA. HOWEVER LULL IN CONVECTION/UNSETTLED PATTERN SHOULD BE SHORT-LIVED AS PERSISTENT SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT CONTINUES OVER NORTHERN PLAINS INTO WEEKEND. HAVE KEPT LOW POP THREATS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS EMBEDDED SHOTS OF SHORTWAVE ENERGY HELP TO PROMOTE BOUNDARY/WAVES OF LOW PRESSURE TO INTERACT WITH INSTABILITY IN PLACE. TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE PERIOD SHOULD AVERAGE SOMEWHAT BELOW NORMAL FOR THE EARLY PART OF JUNE. .LONG TERM (SUN-WED)... THE PATTERN JUST ISNT WANTING TO CHANGE WITH YET ANOTHER UPPER LOW SPINNING IN THE ROCKIES. A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES EJECT OUT INTO THE PLAINS WITH SEVERAL ROUNDS OF CONVECTION THROUGH MONDAY. RIDGING MOVES IN BEHIND THE LOW AS IT DEPARTS ON TUESDAY...WITH DRY WEATHER EXPECTED FOR MID-WEEK. TEMPERATURES DURING THIS TIME WILL RUN CLOSE TO SEASONAL AVERAGES WITH LOWS IN THE 50S AND HIGHS IN THE 70S. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE. && BERG/JCA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 701 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-091200- BARNES ND-BENSON ND-CASS ND-CAVALIER ND-CLAY MN-EAST BECKER MN- EAST MARSHALL MN-EAST OTTER TAIL MN-EAST POLK MN- EASTERN WALSH COUNTY ND-EDDY ND-GRAND FORKS ND-GRANT MN-GRIGGS ND- HUBBARD MN-KITTSON MN-LAKE OF THE WOODS MN-MAHNOMEN MN-NELSON ND- NORMAN MN-NORTH BELTRAMI MN-NORTH CLEARWATER MN-PEMBINA ND- PENNINGTON MN-RAMSEY ND-RANSOM ND-RED LAKE MN-RICHLAND ND-ROSEAU MN- SARGENT ND-SOUTH BELTRAMI MN-SOUTH CLEARWATER MN-STEELE ND-TOWNER ND- TRAILL ND-WADENA MN-WEST BECKER MN-WEST MARSHALL MN- WEST OTTER TAIL MN-WEST POLK MN-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY ND-WILKIN MN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEMIDJI...DETROIT LAKES...DEVILS LAKE... FARGO...FERGUS FALLS...GRAFTON...GRAND FORKS...LANGDON...ROSEAU... THIEF RIVER FALLS...VALLEY CITY AND WAHPETON 701 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND FAR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND FAR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA EAST OF A LINE FROM WAHPETON NORTH DAKOTA TO LANGDON NORTH DAKOTA. STORM ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AFTER 2 PM AND SHOULD MOVE OUT OF REGION AROUND 11 PM TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS. UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP DRY COOL AIR ALOFT WILL MOVE OVER MOIST AIR NEAR THE SURFACE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT THE FOLLOWING URL. WEATHER.GOV/GRANDFORKS USING LOWER CASE HOPPES
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND 209 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 MNZ027-040-081925- WEST BECKER MN-GRANT MN- ...TEST MESSAGE... THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE ONLY. PLEASE ENSURE TRANSMISSION TO THE DETROIT LAKES WARNING POINT. INCLUDING THE CITIES OF DETROIT LAKES. GUST
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:27 UTC.
3 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
No significant tree damage occurred, but dust plumes were evident as the tornado crossed open fields.
Several trees were knocked down in each shelterbelt this tornado crossed. A metal roof was also damaged by the tornado. One to two additional funnels were pendant from the same wall cloud at various times.
The tornado touched down near county highway 55 and tracked for nearly 3 miles, passing just west of Neche. Several trees were knocked down on both sides of state highway 18 at the northwest corner of Neche, indicating a possible counter-clockwise rotation (which is a rare phenomenon in the northern hemisphere). The tornado continued along a north-northeast path and crossed the Canadian border about one-half mile east of the Neche-Gretna border station.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Dakota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 2005Warnings in North Dakota, June 2005
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: 5461339, 5461340, 5461341, 5461398, 5461399.