Hail in North Dakota, July 22, 2007

Name: Hail in North Dakota, July 22, 2007
Start: 2007-07-22T07:48
End: 2007-07-22T09:52
Location: North Dakota

July 22, 2007 · NWS FGF · 11 events in 6 counties and zones

Thunderstorms fired up over Nelson County on the morning of the 22nd and moved southeast all the way to northern Cass County before weakening prior to noon. These thunderstorms had deep moisture to work with, as 850mb dew points ranged from 18C to 20C, and surface dew points ranged from 70F to 75F.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 11

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.

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 Jul 22, 2:19 AM CST, 5 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:19 AM CST, 5 hours 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
319 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2007

.SHORT TERM...
IMMEDIATE CONCERN IS EXTENT OF EARLY MORNING CONVECTION. LOOKING
AT WATER VAPOR...SEVERAL SHORT WAVES ROTATING ON NORTH SIDE OF 594
DM HIGH OVER NEBRASKA. THESE SHORT WAVES INTERACTING WITH A 40KT
LOW LEVEL JET AIMED AT SE ND/NE SD/WCNTRL MN CAUSING ELEVATED
CONVECTION TO DEVELOP. KMVX/KABR 88D INDICATE CORES ARE PRETTY
SMALL AND ATMOSPHERE JUST TOO WARM ALOFT FOR THEM TO REALLY GET
STRONG...BUT BRIEF HVY RAIN OCCURRING. ALSO PLUME OF DEEPER
MOISTURE SEEN ON WATER VAPOR FROM UTAH/WRN COLORADO INTO SD/SE
ND/CNTRL MN. MOVEMENT OF THESE SHORT WAVES MAINLY DUE EAST AND
WITH 850 MB JET SHIFT FROM A SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST TO MORE A
WEST-EAST ORIENTATION BY 12Z WOULD EXPECT ALL THE ACTIVITY TO
REMAIN CONCENTRATED OVER MY SOUTH FCST AREA WITH NOTHING NORTH OF
A FAR-BJI LINE. THUS TWEEKED POPS IN THE 12Z-18Z PERIOD TODAY FOR
THIS FACT. BY 18Z ANY THREAT OF ELEVATED CONVECTION SHOULD BE OVER
AS LOW LEVEL JET AXIS SHIFTS WELL TO OUR EAST AND WEAKENS. THUS
WILL MAINTAIN DRY WX THIS AFTN ALL AREAS. FOR TONIGHT...DID REMOVE
LOW POPS IN WCNTRL MN AS LOOKS LIKE MAIN ACTION TO BE DLH-MSP-RST
AREAS AS 500 MB HIGH BUILDS OVER ERN ND SHIFTING EDGE OF THE MID
LEVEL CAP FARTHER EAST.

WEAK SFC TROUGH NR A ROLLA-BISMARCK LINE AT 08Z WILL MOVE EAST AND
EXTEND NR A ROX-GFK-JMS LINE NR 18Z TODAY AND THEN BASICALLY WASH
OUT MONDAY. SO WINDS TODAY WIL BECOME MUCH LIGHTER THAN ON
SATURDAY.

JUST HOW HOT WILL IT GET. WOULD EXPECT PLENTY OF 90 TO 95 DEGREE
READINGS FOR HIGHS TODAY THRU WEDNESDAY AS RIDGE IS OVERHEAD.
HOTTEST AIR REMAINS WRN ND/WRN SD/ERN MT WHERE 100+ WILL OCCUR.
DEW PTS WILL BE QUITE HIGH AND HEAT INDICES PROGGED TO BE 100-105
AT PEAK HEATING OVER ERN ND. THIS JUST SHY OF HEAT ADVISORY LEVELS
BUT WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION ON HWO/GRAPHICAL WX STORY. MISERABLE
NONETHELESS. KEPT IT DRY MON-WED PERIOD. GFS WANTS TO SPILL A
SHORT WAVE SOUTHWARD THRU MN MON NIGHT INTO TUESDAY WITIH PSBL
PCPN. VERY UNSURE OF THESE SHORT WAVES...SO WILL MAINTAIN DRY
FCST.

.LONG TERM...
CANADIAN/GFS CONSENSUS FROM 00Z RUNS IS TO BRING A TROUGH/COLD
FRONT THRU SOMETIME THURSDAY TIME PERIOD. GREAT DEAL OF
UNCERTAINITY ABOUT TIMING AND CONSENSUS OF NEIGHBORING OFFICES WAS
TO KEEP DRY FCST AND LET DAYSHIFT AND HPC DIAGNOSE PATTERN BETTER.

&&

.AVIATION...
VFR TODAY. LOOKS LIKE EARLY MORNING THUNDER TO AVOID FARGO-BEMIDJI
AIRPORT...AND FOR SURE WILL MISS GRAND FORKS. VFR CIGS WITH TSRA
IN SRN VALLEY AND WCNTRL MN THIS MORNING AND SOME VFR CIGS IN FAR
NW MN FROM ROSEAU TO LAKE OF THE WOODS. AS SFC TROUGH MOVES THRU
THE FCST AREA WINDS WILL DIMINISH TODAY.

&&

.FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ND...NONE.
MN...NONE.
&&

RIDDLE

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 6:06 AM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
706 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2007

MNZ001-002-004>009-013>016-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-054-
231215-
WEST POLK-NORMAN-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-WEST MARSHALL-
EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-EAST POLK-
NORTH CLEARWATER-TOWNER-CAVALIER-PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-
EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-
WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-
706 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES OF 95 TO 105 THIS AFTERNOONN WILL OCCUR. IF
OUTDOORS FOR EXTENDED PERIODS THIS AFTERNOON DRINK PLENTY OF
LIQUIDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

CONTINUED HOT AND HUMID WEATHER FOR MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WILL
BRING HEAT INDICES OF 95 TO 105 EACH AFTERNOON. NO HAZARDOUS
WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

MNZ003-017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ038-039-049-052-053-231215-
CLAY-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-
EAST BECKER-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-
BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND-
706 AM CDT SUN JUL 22 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR FROM EXTREME SOUTHEAST NORTH
DAKOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...ALONG AND
SOUTH OF A FARGO TO BEMIDJI LINE. A FEW STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE
LIMITS WITH SMALL HAIL. LOCALLY UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN MAY OCCUR.
THE STORMS WILL EXIT THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON MAKING WAY FOR HOT
AND HUMID CONDITIONS WITH HEAT INDICES IN THE 95 TO 105 RANGE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

CONTINUED HOT AND HUMID WEATHER FOR MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WILL
BRING HEAT INDICES OF 95 TO 105 EACH AFTERNOON. NO HAZARDOUS
WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

DTR

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:45 UTC.

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Event by event

11 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Nelson

When: July 22, 7:48 AM CST to 7:51 AM CST
Where: Nelson County, 0.46 mi W of Petersburg
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 48.020, -98.010

Hail, Grand Forks

When: July 22, 7:50 AM CST
Where: Grand Forks County, Niagara
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 48.000, -97.870

Hail, Nelson

When: July 22, 8:08 AM CST
Where: Nelson County, 1.98 mi WSW of Aneta Gehrke Arpt
Measured: 1.25 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 47.810, -97.990

Hail, Nelson

When: July 22, 8:25 AM CST
Where: Nelson County, 3.54 mi ENE of Aneta
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 47.700, -97.910

Pea to golfball sized hail fell, but not quite enough to cover the ground.

Hail, Grand Forks

When: July 22, 8:30 AM CST
Where: Grand Forks County, 6.82 mi SSW of Logan Center
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 47.710, -97.880

Hail, Griggs

When: July 22, 8:55 AM CST
Where: Griggs County, 8.7 mi NE of Cooperstown
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 47.540, -97.990

Pea to quarter sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.

Hail, Steele

When: July 22, 8:56 AM CST
Where: Steele County, 5.13 mi E of Sharon
Measured: 3 in hail
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 47.600, -97.790

The largest hailstones ranged from 3 to 3.5 inches in diameter, with an 8 inch circumference.

Hail, Steele

When: July 22, 9:00 AM CST to 9:10 AM CST
Where: Steele County, 4.76 mi NNE of Finley
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 47.580, -97.800

Pea to golfball sized hail fell and covered the ground.

Hail, Steele

When: July 22, 9:35 AM CST
Where: Steele County, 9.33 mi ENE of Colgate
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 47.320, -97.510

The hail broke some small branches.

Hail, Traill

When: July 22, 9:50 AM CST
Where: Traill County, 1.67 mi SW of Galesburg
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 47.250, -97.440

Hail, Cass

When: July 22, 9:52 AM CST
Where: Cass County, 8.72 mi NE of Page
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 47.240, -97.450

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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, July 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: 46263, 46264, 46265, 46266, 46267, 46268, 46269, 46270, 46271, 46272, 46273.