1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Aug 24, 8:08 AM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 908 AM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 .UPDATE... BASED ON A QUICK LOOK AT QPF PROGS AND CURRENT RADAR TRENDS HAVE POSTED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY IN THE NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 PM CDT /3 PM MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR NDZ001-NDZ002-NDZ003-NDZ004-NDZ005-NDZ009-NDZ010-NDZ011-NDZ012- NDZ013-NDZ017-NDZ018-NDZ019-NDZ020-NDZ021-NDZ022-NDZ023-NDZ025- NDZ034-NDZ035-NDZ036-NDZ037-NDZ047-NDZ048-NDZ050-NDZ051. && LEBLANG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 422 AM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-250930- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD- MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS- FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER- STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN- LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 422 AM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 /322 AM MDT THU AUG 24 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD FROM WESTERN INTO CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA TODAY...THEN END FROM THE WEST TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
119 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1150 AM HAIL LINCOLN 46.77N 100.70W
08/24/2006 E1.25 INCH BURLEIGH ND BROADCAST MEDIA
MANY STONES WERE PEA TO MARBLE SIZE WITH A FEW STONES OF
QUARTER AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE. REPORTED BY HUTCH JOHNSON
OF KXMB-TV
&&
VJENSENPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
135 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1030 AM HAIL 3 SE STANTON 47.29N 101.34W
08/24/2006 E4.00 INCH MERCER ND PUBLIC
SEVERE SIZE HAIL LASTED UNTIL 1100 AM CDT. LARGEST STONES
GRAPEFRUIT SIZE. MANY VEHICLES DESTROYED. BUILDING
SEVERELY DAMAGED. REPORT FROM GREAT RIVER ENERGY PLANT.
&&
LATE REPORT. NOTIFIED THROUGH LOCAL MEDIA. FOLLOW UP CALLS PLACED TO
GREAT RIVER ENERGY PLANT.
VJENSENPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
139 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0139 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 12 NW GARRISON 47.78N 101.61W
08/24/2006 MCLEAN ND LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
VJENSENPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
225 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0155 PM FLOOD BEULAH 47.27N 101.77W
08/24/2006 MERCER ND LAW ENFORCEMENT
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM BEULAH
TO HAZEN
&&
VJENSENPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
226 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0205 PM TSTM WND GST WASHBURN 47.29N 101.03W
08/24/2006 E60 MPH MCLEAN ND LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
VJENSENPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
227 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0210 PM TSTM WND GST GARRISON 47.65N 101.42W
08/24/2006 E60 MPH MCLEAN ND TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
VJENSENThe Bismarck radar (KBIS), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:26 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel cloud was observed to last one minute before dissipating.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Dakota in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, August 2006
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: 5528643.