North Dakota 2022 severe weather recap

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – With meteorological summer time over, our extreme climate chances are high dwindling. But it surely was an energetic summer time with a number of notable occasions. Right here’s a glance again at a few of these.

Extreme thunderstorms started to affect North Dakota this yr as early as April 23, when blizzard warnings had been in place for the west and a twister look ahead to the east.

Might featured solely a few extreme thunderstorms with remoted small hail and a short twister in Barnes County.

Then, the sample started to vary in mid-June. Bismarck-Mandan was hit with flooding on June 19 as a extreme thunderstorm shortly dumped over an inch and a half of rain on the area. Sturdy winds over 60 mph additionally triggered scattered tree harm and energy outages.

The following day, Dickinson was hit with a extreme thunderstorm that produced a whole lot of small hail — sufficient to shut some streets and strand some automobiles. Flooding was additionally a difficulty for components of the Queen Metropolis on June 20.

June wrapped up with a few remoted massive hail storms and a short twister noticed close to Manfred.

July proved to be essentially the most energetic month for extreme climate starting on July 2 and July 3 in southwest North Dakota with a number of rounds of extreme storms that produced wind gusts over 75 mph and introduced flooding to components of Dickinson.

On the night time of July 9, a strong supercell delivered estimated 120 mph wind gusts to the Fairfield space snapping round 100 energy poles and damaging many constructions. Seaside noticed 85 mph gusts additionally leading to tree and structural harm.

Excessive-end damaging winds returned to the area on July 18 with estimated 95 mph gusts in Wildrose and 75 mph gusts in Belcourt. Giant hail was additionally noticed on at the present time with as much as three-inch diameter hail in Williston.

Bismarck noticed a major hail storm on the afternoon of July 21 as two supercells moved over the town producing golf ball to tennis ball measurement hail.

The following day, a photogenic storm developed in north-central North Dakota and tracked simply to the north of Minot, however a 75 mph gust was reported on the Air Power Base.

Storms quieted down a bit till mid-August when three tornadoes impacted northeast McLean County, as much as EF-2 power. Some unbelievable photographs of a number of tornadoes on the bottom had been taken as they had been displaced from many of the rain, resulting in clear pictures of the twisters.

A number of extra remoted extreme storms impacted the area to wrap up August, highlighted by some hail and flooding within the Bismarck space on August 23, however issues have been quiet since then as we begin the transition to fall.

The general variety of extreme thunderstorm warnings was beneath common for the summer time regardless of some memorable storms this yr.

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