1 funnel cloud, 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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 2:00 AM CST, 11 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 300 AM CDT MON JUN 12 2006 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT... MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS/HIGHLIGHTS IN THE SHORT TERM WILL BE PRECIPITATION EXTENT THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON...THEN MAINLY DIURNAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LATE TUESDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY EVENING AND OVERNIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. CURRENTLY...REGION SANDWICHED BETWEEN AN UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA AND AN UPPER RIDGE SOUTH ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. 700H SHORT WAVE ADVECTING NORTH TOWARDS WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING ATTM. ALSO...MODERATE LOW LEVEL JET 35-40 KTS DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA WITH THE NOSE PUSHING INTO THE SOUTHWEST FORECAST AREA A LITTLE LATER THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS ACROSS EASTERN MONTANA ALONG A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY MOVING EASTERLY. BOTH THE SURFACE BOUNDARY AND 700H SHORT WAVE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARDS THE FORECAST AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...EVENTUALLY SPREADING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE WEST AND CENTRAL AREAS THIS MORNING. THE SURFACE TROUGH LINE EVENTUALLY TAKES ON MORE WEAK COLD FRONT CHARACTERISTICS LATER THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON AS IT CONTINUES PUSHING EAST...WITH A CONTINUED THREAT OF SHOWER ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY CENTRAL AND EAST ALONG THE BOUNDARY. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS LATER TONIGHT AND INTO TUESDAY...BRINGING WARMER MORE SUMMER LIKE TEMPERATURES BACK TO THE FORECAST AREA. GFS AND NAM FORECAST SOUNDINGS KEEP THE REGION PRETTY WELL CAPPED TUESDAY...BUT LEFT IN SLIGHT CHANCE THUNDER LATE TUESDAY NIGHT FOR ANY STORMS THAT MAY DEVELOP OVER EASTERN MONTANA AND PUSH EAST. RIDGE AXIS MOVES OVER THE REGION WEDNESDAY...WITH SLIGHTLY ABOVE SEASONAL TEMPERATURES EXPECTED. A SURFACE TROUGH DEVELOPS AND STRENGTHENS AS WELL ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS OFF TO OUR WEST LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY...AND WILL SEE BREEZY SOUTHEAST WINDS DURING THE DAYTIME DEVELOPING. AGAIN ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOSTLY CAPPED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH GOOD WAA ALOFT. BY WEDNESDAY EVENING HOWEVER...FLOW ALOFT TURNS SOUTHWESTERLY AND THE SURFACE TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY MOVES FURTHER EAST INTO FAR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. ATMOSPHERE REMAINS UNSTABLE DURING THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS FROM THE AFTERNOON...AND WILL RESULT IN A GOOD CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH SOME STORMS STRONG TO SEVERE GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY AND LIFT. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT... EXTENDED PERIOD STILL DOMINATED BY LARGE UPPER LOW PVER NORTHWEST US WITHH UPPER RIDGE OVER CENTRAL US. SEVERAL STRONG SHORTWAVES PUSH THROUGH THE RIDGE...ON THURSDAY...AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. THE RESULTANT DIMINISHED RIDGE WILL ALLOW COOLER CANADIAN AIR TO MOVE SOUTH BY SUNDAY AND MONDAY. STILL LOOKS REASONABLE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DURING THIS PERIOD. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && NH/WAA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 407 AM CDT MON JUN 12 2006 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-130915- 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- 407 AM CDT MON JUN 12 2006 /307 AM MDT MON JUN 12 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 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A STRONG SURFACE TROUGH AND UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS...AND BRING A CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. NH
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Weak or cold air funnel. No thunderstorm was occurring.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5511670.