Tornado in North Dakota, August 24, 2006

Name: Tornado in North Dakota, August 24, 2006
Start: 2006-08-24T14:03
End: 2006-08-24T14:10
Location: North Dakota

August 24, 2006 · NWS BIS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, 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: 1

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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 24, 8:08 AM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 8:08 AM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes before

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, Aug 24, 3:22 AM CST, 10 hours 41 minutes before

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 24, 12:39 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY 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

&&

VJENSEN

Local storm report, Aug 24, 1:25 PM CST, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY 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

&&

VJENSEN

Local storm report, Aug 24, 1:26 PM CST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY 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

&&

VJENSEN

Local storm report, Aug 24, 1:27 PM CST, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY 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

&&

VJENSEN

Local storm report, Aug 24, 1:29 PM CST, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
229 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0212 PM     HAIL             3 W UNDERWOOD           47.45N 101.21W
08/24/2006  E1.00 INCH       MCLEAN             ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            65 MPH WINDS ALSO REPORTED

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VJENSEN

Local storm report, Aug 24, 1:31 PM CST, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
231 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 PM     TSTM WND GST     UNDERWOOD               47.45N 101.14W
08/24/2006  E65 MPH          MCLEAN             ND   PUBLIC

            REPORTED WINDS WERE ONGOING AT 222 PM CDT

&&

VJENSEN

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:04 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Kidder

When: August 24, 2:03 PM CST to 2:10 PM CST
Where: Kidder County, 2 mi S of Steele
Rating: F0
Path length: 1 mi
Path width: 40 yd
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 46.817, -99.900

Tornado occurred in open country with no damage reported.

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Dakota in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history The tornado archive for North Dakota, 2006 Warnings in North Dakota, August 2006

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: 5528646.