Powerful Thunderstorms Could Impact North Dakota This Week

It's been a very stormy summer across North Dakota this year.

Especially across central and western North Dakota. All this rain this summer has left North Dakota with just about zero concerns about drought as we head into fall. A very different picture than what we were looking at this time last year.

All this rain and storminess has had a price to pay, as the state of North Dakota has seen millions of dollars in damage to infrastructure do to damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes this summer.

Drought and wildfires were very much a concern last September, and for good reason, as the state saw several damaging fires last fall.

September is not normally a time of year we have to worry about severe weather potential, but after our very warm and summer-like week, we are juiced for impactful thunderstorms developing Thursday afternoon into Thursday evening.

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The Storm Prediction Center from the National Weather Service has a good chunk of North Dakota at a marginal risk for severe weather tomorrow.

Here are tomorrow's main threats and impacts.

Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms with damaging hail and severe wind potential are possible across western and central North Dakota.

According to the forecast from the National Weather Service in Bismarck, we have a 30 to 50 percent chance of these storms developing on Thursday afternoon and especially Thursday evening. There is no mention of tornadoes developing with these storms.

Thursday storms will be the start of several rounds of potential rain events that could bring up to an inch of rain or more to south-central North Dakota.

Southwest North Dakota could see even more. Rain chances will continue through the weekend, with the next best chance for rain to happen both Saturday and Sunday.