Dakota Datebook: Hail Storm

Aug, 22, 2018 — Many a North Dakota farmer has helplessly watched a promising crop get hailed out.

In August of 1912, a 10-mile wide hailstorm swept from the northeast to the southwest, hitting the town of St. Thomas. A Towner County news story read, “Practically all of the windows in St. Thomas were broken by the hailstones, while the wind worked havoc with some of the poorly constructed building...