Heavy Snow in North Dakota, February 24 to 25, 2007

Name: Heavy Snow in North Dakota, February 24 to 25, 2007
Start: 2007-02-24T20:40
End: 2007-02-25T04:26
Location: North Dakota

February 24 to 25, 2007 · NWS FGF · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

A Colorado Low moved across Kansas and into northern Missouri, then shifted northeast into Wisconsin. To the north of this low, an inverted trough set up into the Red River Valley.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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.

A Colorado Low moved across Kansas and into northern Missouri, then shifted northeast into Wisconsin. To the north of this low, an inverted trough set up into the Red River Valley. Several distinct bouts of precipitation were focused into southeast North Dakota and the northwest quarter of Minnesota during this event. Precipitation initially broke out during the night of the 23rd as light freezing rain over portions of west central Minnesota, but it quickly switched over to snow. This first bout of snow brought about 6 inches to Grant, Otter Tail, and Wadena counties (MN) by noon on the 24th. Additional bands of snow fell across the area that afternoon, but the heaviest band of snow set up over Barnes, Griggs, and Steele counties, where 6 to 8 inches of snow was reported by 7 pm (24th).

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 Feb 24, 3:02 PM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 3:02 PM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Barnes

When: February 24, 8:40 PM CST to February 25, 4:26 AM CST
Where: Barnes forecast zone
Reported by: Official NWS Observations
Coordinates: 46.936, -98.072 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Griggs

When: February 24, 8:40 PM CST to February 25, 4:26 AM CST
Where: Griggs forecast zone
Reported by: Official NWS Observations
Coordinates: 47.457, -98.237 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Steele

When: February 24, 8:40 PM CST to February 25, 4:26 AM CST
Where: Steele forecast zone
Reported by: Official NWS Observations
Coordinates: 47.456, -97.725 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Heavy Snow: Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Dakota in 2007 Every state in 2007 This day in weather history Warnings in North Dakota, February 2007

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: 16115, 16116, 16117.