Enhanced Risk For Powerful North Dakota T-Storms

After an early-season heatwave, which brought all-time record highs for several cities across North Dakota, get ready for a clash of air masses.

Parts of North Dakota have an enhanced risk for severe thunderstorms on Wednesday, May 13th, 2025.

South-central and parts of southeast North Dakota are at a Level 2 risk for severe thunderstorms on Wednesday afternoon and evening.

Impacts from this system include:

Damaging winds, hail, and heavy rain are the main threats. This really will be a big clash between air masses, and we will go from record heat to unseasonably cool temperatures starting Thursday.

Here's the latest map from the Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Service.

We will then transition to unseasonable cool temperatures for the next several days with high temps in the upper 50s to low 60s through the weekend and chances of rain. How much rain are we talking about?

Here are the latest potential rainfall totals from our news partner, KX News.

Southwest North Dakota, where they really need the rain, looks to be on the short end of the stick. We could see some decent rains in south-central North Dakota with an inch or more of rain, where higher totals just east of the Capital Region.

Wednesday will definitely be a day to be weather aware and be ready to move your vehicles into the garage if hailstorms start to pop up.

Let's hope we get the rain but miss out on the hail and damaging winds. We certainly need the rain after all this heat to help with the critical fire danger.