Hail, Wind & Tornado Reports in Burke County, ND

Hail Report Description: Emergency Manager sent video showing rain and hail (up to the size of golf balls).

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Hail Report Description: Nickel to quarter size hail and strong winds. One broken window and a dented vehicle.

Hail Report Description: Hail lasted about 10 minutes. Also had 0.69 inch of rain.

Hail Report Description: Delayed report relayed by broadcast media from August 6th. Picture of hail.

Hail Report Description: Delayed report from August 6 storms. Time estimated from radar.

Hail Report Description: Quarter to golf ball size hail. Time estimated from radar.

Hail Report Description: Corrects previous hail report from 9 ENE Bowbells to also mention crop and wind damage. Hail sizes ranged from quarter to golf ball size. Relayed via social media and broadcast media with picture. Time estimated from radar. Crop... tree... and building damage also reported.

Hail Report Description: Relayed via broadcast media with picture. Time estimated from radar. Reported at Short Creek Dam.

Hail Report Description: MAINLY SMALLER HAIL WITH A FEW STONES UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.

Hail Report Description: HAIL LASTED ABOUT 5 MINUTES.

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Hail Report Description: HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. MPING REPORT.

Hail Report Description: LASTED ABOUT 3 MINUTES. WINDOW DAMAGE IN TOWN. THE DURATION OF THE HAIL EVENT WAS 3 MINUTES.

Hail Report Description: VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO OCCURRING AT TIME OF REPORT.

Hail Report Description: MULTIPLE REPORTS OF QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

Hail Report Description: FACEBOOK POST

Hail Report Description: HAIL ONGOING AT THE TIME OF CALL

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Hail Report Description: The hail resulted in significant damage to crops.

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Wind Report Description: 63MPH gust recorded at 3m at 1N Bowbells NDAWN.

Wind Report Description: 58MPH gust recorded at 3m at NDAWN 1SE Portal.

Wind Report Description: Emergency manager also reports small hail the size of pennies and lots of rain. Visibility is down to around 300ft (estimated).

Wind Report Description: Three big trees down around house. More down around the rest of the property. Dime size hail. Time estimated from radar. Relayed via social media.

Wind Report Description: Four trees down on property. Relayed via social media with picture. Dime size hail also. Time estimated from radar.

Wind Report Description: Mesonet station LWDN8 Lostwood.

Wind Report Description: MESONET STATION 320989 1 NNE BOWBELLS (NDAWN).

Wind Report Description: US AIR FORCE WEATHER STATION 1.5 SW OF BOWBELLS.

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Wind Report Description: REPORT RECEIVED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. SHOP HAD DOORS BLOWN OUT AND SNAPPED CABLE ON ONE SIDE OF BI-FOLD GARAGE DOOR.

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Wind Report Description: HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO OCCURRING AT TIME OF REPORT.

Wind Report Description: MESONET STATION LOSTWOOD /LWDN8/.

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Wind Report Description: Pea size hail accompanied the strong winds.

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Wind Report Description: Very heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.

Wind Report Description: A camper was blown over four miles west of Powers Lake on Highway 50.

Wind Report Description: Penny size hail and very heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.

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Wind Report Description: Intense Rear Flank Downdraft straight line winds did extensive damage to a farmstead. Damage included a garage destroyed, several grain bins destroyed, a quonset destroyed, damage to a home, and several trees uprooted.

Wind Report Description: Very heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.

Wind Report Description: Intense straight line thunderstorm winds combined with large hail resulted in extensive damage to crops.

Wind Report Description: Intense straight line thunderstorm winds resulted in two wood highline poles snapped off, along with numerous reports of tree and crop damage. Three pole barns were also destroyed by the strong winds.

Wind Report Description: Intense straight line thunderstorm winds resulted in a workover oil rig to blow over, causing substantial damage to the rig.

Wind Report Description: Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in roof damage to a home.

Wind Report Description: The high thunderstorm wind damaged oil tanks. The tanks were overturned. The time and wind speed are both estimated.

Wind Report Description: Power lines and small trees were downed due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. Several empty oil storage tanks were also damaged. Power was out to the local area near Northgate. Three tornadoes also touched down in Burke County this day. See the entries for those three tornadoes as well.

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Tornado Report Description: Public submitted video footage of a brief dusty tornado southeast of Bowbells. Report location is where damage was reported... with a grain bin knocked over and the top half of pine trees sheared off. Estimated maximum wind speed was 95 mph.

Tornado Report Description: This tornado crossed from Burke County into Ward County. Note that for roughly three miles in the vicinity of the Des Lacs River, U.S. Highway 52 runs right on the Burke and Ward County line. The tornado was right on the highway in this area. This was the location of the worst damage with this tornado. Farm property on the north side of the highway, Burke County, and on the south side of the highway, Ward County, was impacted. One fatality and one injury occurred here, in a single automobile travelling along the highway, on the county line. The vehicle came to rest in a field, nearly 200 yards off the highway, on the south side of the highway, on the east side of the river, in Ward County. See the EF3 tornado entry for Ward County from August 12.||This third tornado touched down just northeast of Bowbells, Burke County, and tracked east-southeast along U.S. Highway 52, and into Ward County where it dissipated. This EF3 tornado was spawned from the same supercell thunderstorm that earlier produced two brief and weak tornadoes in Burke County.||Meteorologists from the National Weather Service conducted a storm damage survey on Friday, August 13, 2010. Meteorologists walked through the area and spoke with numerous people affected, some of whom were eye witnesses to the event.||Significant damage occurred nearly six miles east of Bowbells, near the Des Lacs River, where U.S. Highway 52 is on the Burke and Ward County line. Three farms were impacted. The worst damage was on the Burke County side of the highway and west side of the river, where a farm home (DI 2, DOD 8) and six outbuildings were destroyed. Nineteen of 21 grain bins were also damaged or destroyed. In addition, a fifty foot air seeder connected to a cultivator, with a combined estimated weight near 60,000 pounds, was moved approximately 100 yards. Based on a lack of scratch marks in the ground it was determined that this equipment was picked up and carried through the air. A second farm, on the Ward County side of the highway, had trees in shelter belts snapped and uprooted and the chimney on the house damaged. A third house, this one on the east side of the river and the Ward County side of the highway, also had significant damage. Here, one camper was thrown into the river on the south side of the Highway 52 bridge that crosses the river, while another camper was thrown into the river and landed on the north side of the bridge, back into Burke County. The house had damage to siding and shingles.||Of all the damage surveyed the absolute worst corresponded to a high EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale. From that it was determined that peak wind speeds in the tornado were on the order of 165 mph.||One fatality and one injury occurred in an automobile in this same immediate area. A car with two occupants travelling east along U.S. Highway 52 was picked up and carried over the Des Lacs River, and came to rest 200 yards off the highway, in a field east of the river, and on the Ward County side of the highway. The driver of the vehicle was injured and the passenger was killed.||See the other two tornado entries for Burke County, and the EF3 tornado entry for Ward County from August 12 as this tornado crossed into Ward County.

Tornado Report Description: A second brief tornado touched down in the open country just west of the Bowbells airport. No structures were impacted so no damage was done. This tornado was spawned from the same supercell thunderstorm that earlier produced a brief tornado in Burke County, and later produced a long tracked high end EF3 tornado from Burke into Ward County. See the other two tornado entries for Burke County and the tornado entry for Ward County from August 12.

Tornado Report Description: A brief tornado touched down in the open country west of Bowbells. No structures were impacted so no damage was done. This tornado was spawned from the same supercell thunderstorm that later produced another brief tornado in Burke County and a long tracked high end EF3 tornado from Burke into Ward County. See the other two tornado entries for Burke County and the tornado entry for Ward County from August 12.

Tornado Report Description: This tornado occurred in the open country. It was on the ground briefly and impacted no structures. There was no damage. The tornado was rated EF0.

Tornado Report Description: Local law enforcement reported a visible debris cloud near the ground with this tornado. This tornado touchdown occurred in the open country with no reported damage.

Tornado Report Description: This report came to the National Weather Service from the public, relayed through broadcast media. The report was of a brief tornado that hit no structures and did no damage. No reports of injuries or deaths were received.

Tornado Report Description: Oil storage tanks were reported damaged from a tornado east of Northgate. The damage corresponded to high end EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale. From that it was determined that wind speed were around 85 mph. There were no other damage reports. There were no injuries and no deaths.

Tornado Report Description: A tornado was reported west of Portal near the Canadian border where it blew out the windows of two vehicles and blew the vehicles into the ditch. The tornado continued east-southeast towards the southern side of the town of Portal, uprooting 12 inch in diameter trees, snapping several power poles, and destroying an old oak barn. The tornado then continued east of Portal, uprooting several more large trees, downing more power lines, and destroying a granary, before dissipating. The damage corresponded to low end EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale. From that it was determined that wind speeds were around 90 mph. No injuries and no deaths were reported.

Tornado Report Description: The tornado was thin and ropelike. The tornado was observed on the ground in open country for 2 or 3 minutes before lifting and dissipated.

Tornado Report Description: Brief touchdown in open country.

Tornado Report Description: Visiable condensation funnel extended over half way to the ground with a brief touchdown in open country.

Tornado Report Description: The multi-vortex tornado cut a 2 mile wide swath across open country twisting off numerous tree tops.

Tornado Report Description: Tornado briefly touched down in open country.

Tornado Report Description: Touchdown in open country. Tornado remained in open country as it crossed into Renville county.

Tornado Report Description: Numerous reports were received of this tornado, the first report coming from Minot Airforce Base personnel. Numerous brief touchdowns were reported along its path but no damage was reported.

Tornado Report Description: Tornado formed in Canada and moved south into the US. multiple funnels were reported.

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Tornado Report Description: Reported by North Dakota Highway Patrol.

Tornado Report Description: A tornado briefly touched down and blew over several trees. The path and length of the tornado were estimated.

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