Name: Hail in Michigan, June 14, 2002
Start: 2002-06-14T14:23
End: 2002-06-14T14:23
Location: Michigan

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 2:05 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:05 PM EST, 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
205 PM EST FRI JUN 14 2002

SHORT TERM DISCUSSION...
THE FORECAST CONCERNS FOR THIS PACKAGE ARE THE POP CHANCES THROUGH
THE WEEKEND.

THIS AFTERNOON THE SURFACE LOW WAS OVER EAST-CENTRAL MICHIGAN AND
LAKE HURON WITH CLOUDS WRAPPING AROUND THROUGH
WISCONSIN/ILLINOIS/INDIANA. NOT GOING TO CHANGE MUCH IN THE
FORECAST AS THE MODELS FOR THE MOST PART ARE STAYING IN LINE WITH THE
EXISTING FORECAST. ETA/AVN ARE AGREEING WITH THE PLACEMENTS OF THE
UPPER AND SURFACE LOWS...SO AGREE THAT THE LOW WILL HANG IN THE GREAT
LAKES AREA THROUGH SUNDAY. THEN WITH SHORTWAVES ROTATING AROUND THAT
LOW...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...AND SOME INSTABILITY WILL KEEP THE SMALL
POPS GOING. ETA/AVN WERE SHOWING 500MB TEMPS TONIGHT AROUND -20 OVER
OUR CWA...SLIGHTLY WARMER SATURDAY...AND THEN THE -20 TO -21 RETURNS
ON SUNDAY INTO EARLY MONDAY. ETA MOS TEMPERATURE NUMBERS WERE
LOOKING A LITTLE TOO WARM FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...AVN LOOKED MORE
REASONABLE...SO WILL GO WITH IT.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
00Z MRF RUN MOVES THE LONG WAVE TROUGH OUT QUICKER...MAKING IT MORE
IN LINE WITH ECMWF. THIS WILL ALLOW WARMER TEMPS TO RETURN TO THE
AREA. CHALLENGE COMES IN PCPN CHCS. ADDITIONAL MSTR AND INSTABILITY
WORKS IN BY THURS AND FRI. FAIR AMT OF QPF PRINTED OUT ON FRIDAY
WITH MCS REMNANTS. AT THIS STAGE OF THE GAME...WILL KEEP EXTENDED
DRY WITH MODELS STILL TRYING TO CLEAN UP AFTER THE STUBBORN WEEKEND
PATTERN. WILL BUMP UP HIGHS ON TUESDAY A CATEGORY...BUT NOT AS
AGGRESSIVE AS MEX...ALTHOUGH AROUND 80 NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION WITH
ENOUGH SUN. REST OF EXTENDED UNCHANGED.

.IWX...NONE.

BML/FISHER

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:24 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hillsdale

When: June 14, 2:23 PM EST
Where: Hillsdale County, Frontier
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.783, -84.600

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Michigan in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Michigan, June 2002

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5301169.