Hail in North Dakota, September 16 to 17, 2005

Name: Hail in North Dakota, September 16 to 17, 2005
Start: 2005-09-16T23:07
End: 2005-09-17T23:07
Location: North Dakota

September 16 to 17, 2005 · NWS FGF · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 16, 6:50 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 6:50 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
750 PM CDT FRI SEP 16 2005

.CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW...
00Z SURFACE ANALYSIS DEPICTED LOW PRESSURE OVER CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA WITH
ATTENDANT FRONTAL BOUNDARY FROM SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA INTO NORTHWEST
MINNESOTA. LATEST RADAR MOSAIC/W/V IMAGERY SHOWED CONVECTION FIRING JUST
TO THE NORTH OF BOUNDARY IN RESPONSE TO UPSTREAM VORTICITY MAXIMA OVER
SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

.SHORT TERM...
23Z RUC MODEL HAD GOOD HANDLE ON PLACEMENT OF SURFACE AND UPPER LEVEL
FEATURES. INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT
STILL APPEARS TO BE MAIN MECHANISM TO SPAWN SCATTERED ELEVATED CONVECTION
ALONG AND NORTH OF BOUNDARY. ATTM NO MAJOR CHANGES PLANNED TO CURRENT
ZONES.

&&

.FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ND...NONE.
MN...NONE.

&&

BERG

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 16, 5:21 AM CST, 17 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
621 AM CDT FRI SEP 16 2005

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-171130-
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-
WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-
EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-
SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-
WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER-
PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON-
GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-
RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-
621 AM CDT FRI SEP 16 2005

...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF THE REGION TONIGHT...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AND ASSOCIATED WARM FRONT WILL BRING A
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTHERN PARTS OF THE REGION LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE FAVORED AREA FOR STORMS WILL BE ALONG
AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 2. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD APPROACH SEVERE
LIMITS WITH THE PRIMARY HAZARD BEING HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY BEFORE
MOVING EAST OF THE REGION LATER SATURDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT.

VOELKER

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:06 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Grand Forks

When: September 16, 11:07 PM CST to September 17, 11:07 PM CST
Where: Grand Forks County, Grand Forks
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates: 47.917, -97.050

The hail fell on the south end of Grand Forks.

Hail, Sargent

When: September 16, 11:25 PM CST to 11:30 PM CST
Where: Sargent County, 4 mi W of Brampton
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 46.000, -97.867

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, September 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5474118, 5474119.