North Dakota’s Surprisingly Heavy Rainfall Totals

It wasn't a widespread soaking on Monday evening.

However, if you got under the right thunderhead cloud, it was a soaking. South-central North Dakota was in a Level 1 alert for severe weather Monday night. Although there were some brief strong winds, the storms remained under severe weather limits.

I was mowing my lawn south of Lincoln when I noticed the thunderheads lining up to the east and north of us. I eventually was forced off my zero-turn Bobcat as these storms kept blowing up behind those initial storm clouds.

We had a pretty good downpour at my house, and the same was reported in Lincoln to the north of us. Just to the west of us in Bismarck and Mandan, very little precipitation fell. In fact, I spoke with the National Weather Service at the airport and they only received .03.

As usual, the Bismarck Bubble was firmly in place.

However, some areas to the east and south of us were measuring rain in their gauges that showed over an inch. Places like Huff, Sterling, Wing, Fort Rice, and Tuttle all had spots that recorded over an inch of rain. One spot even cracked the two-inch mark.

I guess we will take what we can get, as there are literally no chances of rain coming our way in the next 10 days, and we are likely to see our first 90-degree temps this weekend.

Here are your North Dakota Rainfall totals and radar-estimated rainfall totals from the National Weather Service, AccuWeather, Weather.us, and CoCoRaHS:

Bismarck received .03 inches of rain. (National Weather Service)

Huff received 1.50 inches of rain. (2nd highest total in the state)

Sterling received 1.07 inches of rain.

7 miles north of Sterling received 1.15 inches of rain.

Wilton received .23 inches of rain.

Lincoln received .41 inches of rain.

5 miles east of Goodrich received 2.5 inches of rain. (Highest total in the state)

Selfridge received .83 inches of rain.

Beulah received .08 inches of rain.

Hebron received .06 inches of rain.

Hazen received .39 inches of rain.

Hazelton received .34 inches of rain.

3 miles south of Minot received 07 inches of rain.

Dickinson received .17 inches of rain.