414 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Dakota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
This devastating flooding continued into April, and in some cases worsened.||Western and central North Dakota experienced a snowy winter of 2008-2009.
Read the full account →Western and central North Dakota experienced a snowy winter of 2008-2009. Bismarck, for example, had the snowiest December on record, which was also the snowiest month ever on record, with 33.3 inches of snow in December 2008.
Read the full account →Rain with isolated thunder developed across southeast North Dakota and west central Minnesota Monday (11th) morning ahead of an approaching cold front from the west. The rain continued into the afternoon and early evening, saturating the ground with two to three inches of rain.
Read the full account →Warm weather toward the end of March lead to rapid snow melt across southcentral North Dakota. This in turn lead to flooding across much of the area. Near the confluence of Spring Creek and the Knife River, the town of Beulah(Mercer Co) had 150 families evacuated.
Read the full account →This devastating flooding continued into April, and in some cases worsened.||Western and central North Dakota experienced a snowy winter of 2008-2009.
Read the full account →In the mid afternoon hours of Wednesday, July 30th, Severe Thunderstorm Watch 775 was issued for much of western and central North Dakota due to intensification of thunderstorms developing along a pre-frontal trough situated over western North Dakota.
Read the full account →Training thunderstorms brought very heavy rain to parts of central North Dakota during the evening of August 21st, with flash flooding occurring over parts of Rolette and Wells counties.
Read the full account →In the early afternoon of June 26th, Severe Thunderstorm Watch 518 was issued in anticipation of severe thunderstorms developing and intensifying along and ahead of a surface boundary across western South Dakota and central North Dakota, and ahead of a series of upper level…
Read the full account →By early evening of the 22nd, a triple point had formed over north central South Dakota, with a surface boundary extending to its north and south. A warm front extended to the southeast, or down into southwest Minnesota.
Read the full account →This devastating flooding continued into April, and in some cases worsened.||Western and central North Dakota experienced a snowy winter of 2008-2009.
Read the full account →This devastating flooding continued into April, and in some cases worsened.||Western and central North Dakota experienced a snowy winter of 2008-2009.
Read the full account →Surface low pressure over southwest North Dakota combined with a lead short wave impulse to trigger thunderstorms across southwest and south central North Dakota through the afternoon hours and into the evening of August 5th.
Read the full account →Wet weather continued through the month of June, causing the levels of Devils Lake and Stump Lake to hold fairly steady. Devils Lake started the month with an elevation of roughly 1454.25 feet MSL and ended the month of June at an elevation of roughly 1454.30 feet MSL.
Read the full account →Severe Thunderstorm Watch number 645 was issued during the mid evening of the 14th for much of west and portions of central North Dakota in anticipation of stronger storms over eastern Montana advecting east into North Dakota through the early morning hours of the 15th.
Read the full account →A severe thunderstorm outbreak materialized over west and south central North Dakota in the late afternoon and evening hours of July 22nd, lasting into the early morning hours of the 23rd. Tornado watch numbers 673, 674, and 675 were in effect for this event.
Read the full account →A surface cold front advecting from west to east, coupled with a mid level jet streak, combined with abundant moisture and instability to result in widespread thunderstorm activity during the afternoon and evening hours of June 25th.
Read the full account →This episode began late in the evening of July 31st and continued into the early morning hours of August 1st, as severe thunderstorms from central North Dakota moved into eastern North Dakota.
Read the full account →This episode began late in the evening of July 31st and continued into the early morning hours of August 1st, as severe thunderstorms from central North Dakota moved into eastern North Dakota.
Read the full account →This episode began late in the evening of July 31st and continued into the early morning hours of August 1st, as severe thunderstorms from central North Dakota moved into eastern North Dakota.
Read the full account →This episode began late in the evening of July 31st and continued into the early morning hours of August 1st, as severe thunderstorms from central North Dakota moved into eastern North Dakota.
Read the full account →This episode began late in the evening of July 31st and continued into the early morning hours of August 1st, as severe thunderstorms from central North Dakota moved into eastern North Dakota.
Read the full account →Training thunderstorms brought very heavy rain to parts of central North Dakota during the evening of August 21st, with flash flooding occurring over parts of Rolette and Wells counties.
Read the full account →A warm front pushed northward through eastern North Dakota during the afternoon of the 26th. By the early evening, low pressure had set up over northwest South Dakota, with the warm front extending to the northeast along a line from near Bismarck to near Devils Lake.
Read the full account →A significant low pressure system developed in the lee of the Rocky Mountains over Colorado and Wyoming Sunday, March 22nd, strengthening and ejecting northeast into the upper Midwest by Tuesday, March 24th.
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