Hail, Logan
- When
- May 26, 10:57 PM CST to 11:01 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 0.69 mi N of Napoleon
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 46.510, -99.770
Hail in North Dakota, May 26 to 27, 2012
A surface warm front lifting north across southern North Dakota brought elevated nocturnal convection across the southwest and south central parts of the state. A few storms became severe and produced large hail late in the evening of May 26th and during the early morning hours of the 27th.
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
- 4
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 BIS wrote it up.
A surface warm front lifting north across southern North Dakota brought elevated nocturnal convection across the southwest and south central parts of the state. A few storms became severe and produced large hail late in the evening of May 26th and during the early morning hours of the 27th.
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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 8:30 PM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 8:30 PM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 930 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 .SHORT TERM...RAISED POPS SOME OVERNIGHT AS ELEVATED CONVECTION CONTINUES WELL NORTH OF WARM FRONT STILL IN NEBRASKA AND IS INCREASING WITH INCREASE IN NOCTURAL JET. TEMPERATURES SHOULD REMAIN FAIRLY STEADY OR RISE SLOWLY. .AVIATION... CONTINUED LIFR CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT WITH IMPROVEMENT BEGINNING AS WARM FRONT APPROACHES TOMORROW. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...HW AVIATION...HW
Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 2:39 PM CST, 8 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 339 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-272045- 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- 339 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 /239 PM MDT SAT MAY 26 2012/ 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...TONIGHT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS. ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE SATURDAY EVENING AND SATURDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PREDOMINATE THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA ARCHING INTO THE UPPER JAMES RIVER VALLEY ON SUNDAY. FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNINGS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED SATURDAY EVENING AND SATURDAY NIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY. WAA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 10:32 PM CST, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1132 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 NDZ036-046-047-270445- EMMONS ND-KIDDER ND-LOGAN ND- 1132 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR NORTHWESTERN LOGAN...SOUTHWESTERN KIDDER AND NORTHEASTERN EMMONS COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 PM CDT... AT 1127 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAZELTON....MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BRADDOCK... KINTYRE... THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. AYD
Special weather statement, May 26, 10:56 PM CST, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1156 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 NDZ023-036-037-047-270545- KIDDER ND-LOGAN ND-STUTSMAN ND-WELLS ND- 1156 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR SOUTHERN WELLS...NORTHWESTERN STUTSMAN...NORTHWESTERN LOGAN AND SOUTHEASTERN KIDDER COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 AM CDT... AT 1150 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE FROM NAPOLEON TO 6 MILES NORTH OF BRADDOCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS... ALONG WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... STEELE... LAKE ISABEL... DAWSON... TAPPEN... CRYSTAL SPRINGS... MEDINA... CHASE LAKE... PETTIBONE... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. AYD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:55 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Kidder
- When
- May 26, 11:05 PM CST to 11:09 PM CST
- Where
- Kidder County, 0.95 mi W of Steele
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 46.850, -99.920
Hail, Grant
- When
- May 27, 12:00 AM MST to 12:05 AM MST
- Where
- Grant County, New Leipzig
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 46.370, -101.950
Hail, Grant
- When
- May 27, 12:15 AM MST to 12:19 AM MST
- Where
- Grant County, 13.85 mi N of Elgin Muni Arpt
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 46.600, -101.810
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
- Strong Wind in Arizona, May 26, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 26, 2012
- High Wind in Kansas, May 26 to 27, 2012
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Minnesota, May 26, 2012
- Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, May 26, 2012
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flood in Georgia, May 26 to 29, 2012
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, May 26, 2012
- High Wind in Colorado, May 26, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, May 26, 2012
- Wildfire and Rip Current in Florida, May 26, 2012
- Dust Storm and High Wind in Arizona, May 26, 2012
- Hail and High Wind in New Mexico, May 26, 2012
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, May 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: 377430, 377431, 377432, 377433.