Hail, Richland
- When
- August 15, 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Richland County, 0.48 mi W of Dwight
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Broadcast Media
- Coordinates
- 46.300, -96.740
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Hail in North Dakota, August 15, 2012
A ribbon of middle 60F surface dew point values worked into eastern North Dakota and the northwest quarter of Minnesota during the afternoon of August 15th. These were pretty high values after a week of morning low temperatures in the 50s.
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
- 2
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 ribbon of middle 60F surface dew point values worked into eastern North Dakota and the northwest quarter of Minnesota during the afternoon of August 15th. These were pretty high values after a week of morning low temperatures in the 50s. A cold front moved into southeast North Dakota and the northwest quarter of Minnesota during the peak of afternoon heating and helped initiate several severe thunderstorms.
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 Aug 15, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 230 PM CDT WED AUG 15 2012 .DISCUSSION...FORECAST CHALLENGE CONCERNS LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING STORM POTENTIAL...THEN TEMPERATURES. MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH THE PERIOD AND WILL USE BLEND FOR FORECAST. COLD FRONT BECOMING NEARLY N-S ORIENTED ENTERING WESTERN VALLEY REGION ATTM. CAPE AND INSTABILITY INCREASING AHEAD OF FRONT AND SHORT WAVE INTO WESTERN ND WILL PROVIDE UPPER SUPPORT AND AID IN CONVECTIVE INITIATION. SOME MODEST TSRA CONFINED TO INL BORDER AREA OVER FAR NE FA. CIN WEAKENING SO BY MID/LATE AFTERNOON COULD SEE CONVECTION DEVELOPING SOUTHWARD. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT VALLEY REGION WILL BE ON WESTERN FRINGE OF STRONGER STORM POTENTIAL WITH MORE FAVORED AREA ACROSS MN PORTION OF FORECAST AREA JUST EAST OF VALLEY. WILL MENTION SEVERE POTENTIAL THIS AREA. BY 00Z STORMS LIKELY TO BE CONFINED TO THE FAR EASTERN FA AND SHOULD CLEAR FA BY MID EVENING. WILL MAKE SOME SLIGHT POP ADJUSTMENTS. FARTHER WEST BEHIND BOUNDARY CONFIDENCE LOW ON ANY PCPN HOLDING TOGETHER INTO THE EVENING. STRONG PUSH OF COLD ADVECTION HOWEVER SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT AND LACK OF ANY STRONG LOW LEVEL DRYING WILL LIMIT TEMPERATURE DROP. OTHER THAN AN ISOLD SHRA OVER LAKE OF WOODS AREA IN WRAP AROUND/COLD POOL FROM DEPARTING LOW FA WILL BE DRY THURSDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN. SOLAR ACROSS WEST HALF OF FA SHOULD OFFSET COOL COLUMN BUT EVEN SO TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE WELL BLO AVERAGE. CU FIELD WITH LOWER CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES SHOULD PRIMARILY BE EAST OF VALLEY. HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES IN OVER FA THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. WITH SKC AND DIMINISHING WIND COULD GET PRETTY FRESH FRIDAY AM. WELL BLO AVERAGE TEMPERATURES TO CONTINUE IN SPITE OF WEAK WARM ADVECTION AND SURFACE WESTERLY FLOW. WEAK BACK DOOR COLD FRONT DROPS THROUGH SATURDAY TO KEEP TEMPERATURES BLO AVERAGE. .LONG TERM (SAT NIGHT THROUGH WED)... UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST WILL SLOWLY SHIFT OVER THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD. AS THE RIDGE PROGRESSES EAST...THICKNESS VALUES WILL INCREASE RESULTING IN A SLOW WARM UP THROUGH THE PERIOD. OTHERWISE...SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND TRANQUIL WEATHER ACROSS THE REGION. && .AVIATION... A COLD FRONT PASSING THE AREA TODAY WILL BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NEAR THE BOUNDARY. EXPECT CIGS TO LOWER BRIEFLY TO MVFR CONDITIONS INVOF THE FRONT. WINDS WILL SHIFT NORTHWESTERLY BEHIND THE FRONT AND SOME GUSTS IN THE 25 TO 30 MPH RANGE CAN BE ANTICIPATED. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS AND SLOWLY DIMINISHING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED AFT 09Z. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE. && VOELKER/HOPKINS
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 5:28 AM CST, 9 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 628 AM CDT WED AUG 15 2012 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-161130- 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-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS- GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- WESTERN WALSH- 628 AM CDT WED AUG 15 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO THE DEVILS LAKE BASIN THIS MORNING AND SPREAD SOUTH AND EASTWARD THROUGHOUT THE DAY TODAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA. THE ACTIVITY EARLY IN THE DAY IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...BUT LIGHTNING WILL BE A THREAT. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE BY THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY EAST OF A FORMAN NORTH DAKOTA TO ROSEAU MINNESOTA LINE. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EASTWARD...WITH A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG IT. THE LINE OF STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME LOCATIONS...BUT THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL PUSH EASTWARD AND OUT OF THE AREA BY LATE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Richland
- When
- August 15, 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Richland County, 0.48 mi W of Wahpeton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Broadcast Media
- Coordinates
- 46.270, -96.610
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Jersey, August 15, 2012
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in New Jersey, August 15, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 15 to 16, 2012
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 15, 2012
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, August 15 to 16, 2012
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 15, 2012
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 15, 2012
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Massachusetts, August 15, 2012
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 15, 2012
- Wildfire in Kansas, August 15 to 16, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 15, 2012
- Flooding in Rhode Island, August 15, 2012
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, August 2012
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: 392278, 392279.