Flood, Nelson
- When
- December 1, 12:00 AM CST to December 15, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Nelson County, 12 mi S of Lakota to 16 mi S of Lakota
- Cause
- Heavy Rain / Snow Melt
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 47.856, -98.350
Flood in North Dakota, December 1 to 15, 2006
90 feet MSL and remained there through the month of December. 40 feet MSL.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 happened
The episode as NWS FGF wrote it up.
Devils Lake froze up at an elevation around 1446.90 feet MSL and remained there through the month of December. With the Jerusalem Coulee also freezing up, Stump Lake also steadied out in December, at an elevation around 1444.40 feet MSL.
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 Nov 30, 9:10 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 30, 9:10 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 910 PM CST THU NOV 30 2006 .DISCUSSION...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES ARE TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION. WHEN LOOKING AT THE LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS...THE AREA IS BETWEEN WEATHER SYSTEMS...WITH HIGH PRESSURE TO THE E AND LOW PRESSURE TO THE W. WHEN COMPARING MODELS...THE GFS SOLUTION APPEARS TO BE HANDLING THE SITUATION BEST...SO WILL LEAN TOWARDS FOR FORECAST. CURRENT FORECAST APPEARS TO BE PRETTY WELL ON TRACK WITH ARRIVAL OF PRECIPITATION...BUT TEMPERATURES WILL NEED SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO ACCOUNT FOR THE FASTER COOL DOWN IN THE MN PART OF THE AREA AND THE NEARLY STEADY TEMPS IN PARTS OF ND. OVERALL... MINIMAL CHANGES MADE TO CURRENT FORECAST. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE. && NG
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 30, 3:40 AM CST, 20 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 340 AM CST THU NOV 30 2006 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-011200- 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- 340 AM CST THU NOV 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY OR THIS EVENING. A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE EAST INTO CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME LIGHT SNOW WILL OCCUR AHEAD OF THIS FRONT IN THE DEVILS LAKE AND LANGDON AREA LATE TONIGHT WITH UP TO AN INCH POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SEVERAL WEAK WEATHER SYSTEMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA DURING THIS PERIOD. UP TO AN INCH OF LIGHT SNOW IS POSSIBLE IN THE ROSEAU AND WARROAD AREAS FRIDAY MORNING. OTHERWISE PATCHY LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED OVER THE REST OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NORTH DAKTOTA FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY WITH ACCUMULATIONS UNDER AN INCH. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL DROP SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE AREA MONDAY GIVING A CHANCE FOR LIGHT SNOW AND LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DTR
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Illinois, December 1, 2006
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, December 1, 2006
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, December 1, 2006
- Winter Weather in Texas, December 1, 2006
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, December 1, 2006
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in New York, December 1, 2006
- Winter Storm in Missouri, December 1, 2006
- Blizzard in Wisconsin, December 1, 2006
- Winter Storm in Illinois, December 1, 2006
- Drought in Oklahoma, December 1 to 31, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, December 1, 2006
- High Wind in Ohio, December 1, 2006
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, December 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: 6991.