Bismarck (CSi) The National Weather Service in Bismarck, has issued a statement on the severity of Monday evening’s storm in Foster County, and the area….

IT WAS DETERMINED THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS OF 60 TO 100 MPH

TORE THROUGH FOSTER COUNTY ON MONDAY EVENING.

THE HIGHEST WINDS…90 TO 100 MPH…POUNDED THE AREA FROM BORDULAC TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF GRACE CITY. IN THIS AREA NUMEROUS FARMS SUFFERED EXTENSIVE SEVERE DAMAGE. A GRAIN ELEVATOR WAS SEVERELY DAMAGED. GRAIN BINS WERE DESTROYED…SOME TORN FROM THEIR FOUNDATIONS AFTER BEING HIT BY FLYING TREE TRUNKS AND OTHER DEBRIS. OUTBUILDINGS HAD ROOFS TORN OFF. SOME FARM HOMES SUFFERED ROOF AND SIDING DAMAGE AND WINDOWS WERE BROKEN.

A SEMI TRACTOR HAD THE HOOD OVER THE ENGINE CAVED IN…WINDOWS BROKEN…AND THE CAB ON THE PASSENGER SIDE DENTED AFTER BEING HIT BY A GRAIN BIN. THE TRAILER OF AN ADJACENT SEMI HAD BEEN PUSHED ABOUT A FOOT AFTER BEING HIT BROADSIDE BY THE BIN. THERE WAS AGRICULTURAL DAMAGE AS ROW CROPS WERE LAID FLAT.

 

OUTSIDE OF THE HIGHEST WIND AREA…A SEMI TRUCK WAS BLOWN OFF THE

HIGHWAY AND TIPPED NEAR MELVILLE…AND TREE BRANCHES WERE BROKEN

ACROSS THE COUNTY.

ON THE DRIVE TO AND FROM FOSTER COUNTY FROM BISMARCK…TREE BRANCHES WERE BROKEN…SOME TREES WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED…AND CROPS WERE DAMAGED. THIS INCLUDED ALONG INTERSTATE 94 FROM BISMARCK TO MEDINA…THROUGH WOODWORTH…PINGREE..EDMUNDS AND MELVILLE.