2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 15, 2:10 PM EST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 310 PM EDT SAT JUN 15 2002 SHORT TERM DISCUSSION... FORECAST CONCERNS THIS GO AROUND PERTAIN TO WHERE TO PLACE CHANCE POPS WITH THE UPPER LOW MOVING EAST AND NORTHWEST FLOW IN PLACE. THE UPPER LOW GRADUALLY SLIDES EAST INTO QUEBEC BY MONDAY EVENING WITH SHORTWAVES ROTATING THROUGH THE REGION ON THE BACKSIDE. AT THE SURFACE...MUCH THE SAME SCENARIO...WITH THE SURFACE LOW HEADED EAST AND RIDGING ACTUALLY BUILDING IN FOR MON/MON NIGHT. MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE MAIN FEATURES THROUGH THE SHORT TERM. TONIGHT...SHORTWAVE IS DIRECTLY UPSTREAM OVER NORTHERN WISCONSIN... WITH CONVECTION FIRING AHEAD OF AND BENEATH THE WAVE OVER WISCONSIN. GIVEN THE FACT THAT THIS WAVE WILL DROP THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING...WILL NEED TO MAINTAIN A SCATTERED SHOWER WORDING WITH AN EVENING THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE. CONDITIONS REMAIN UNSTABLE THROUGH THE EVENING WITH THE COOL POOL STILL ALOFT. STORMS THIS EVENING WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED FOR THE POTENTIAL OF HAIL GIVEN THE LOW FREEZING LEVELS AROUND 9000 FEET OR SO. MORE CLOUDS WILL BE SEEN ACROSS THE NORTH...WITH PARTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS FURTHER SOUTH. LOWS SHOULD RANGE FROM THE LOWER 50S NORTH TO THE MIDDLE 50S SOUTH. ON SUNDAY...THE UPPER LOW SLOWLY SHIFTS FROM THE LAKE HURON AREA INTO ONTARIO...TAKING THE DEEPER MOISTURE WITH IT THROUGH THE DAY. NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF A SHORTWAVE TO KEY ON...SO SHOWER ACTIVITY MAY BE MINIMAL. WILL CARRY A CHANCE OF SHOWERS THOUGH...ONLY A 30 POP TOWARD THE DEEPER MOISTURE ACROSS THE EAST. HIGHS SHOULD TOP OUT IN THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70. SUNDAY NIGHT...WILL PLAY THE FORECAST MORE OPTIMISTIC AND JUST GO WITH PARTLY CLOUDY WORDING. DEEPER MOISTURE CONTINUES TO HEAD EAST WITH NEXT SHORTWAVE IN LINE STILL UPSTREAM. WILL USE LOWS OF UPPER 40S NORTH AND AROUND 50 ACROSS THE SOUTH. ON MONDAY...ANOTHER SHORTWAVE IS PROGD TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE UPPER CIRCULATION WHICH BY THIS TIME WILL BE OVER QUEBEC. SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL BE DRAPED ACROSS THE AREA ON MONDAY AT THE SAME TIME AS THE SHORTWAVE IS PROGD TO BE MOVING THROUGH. WILL CONTINUE THE CHANCE POPS IN THE FORECAST...BUT TAPER THEM BACK TO 30 PERCENT. HIGHS ON MONDAY WILL NOSE UP INTO THE LOWER 70S. MONDAY NIGHT RIDGING SHOULD BE TAKING OVER AT THE SURFACE AND BEGINNING TO MOVE IN ALOFT...SO WILL JUST WORD THE FORECAST AS PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S TO AROUND 50 ONCE AGAIN. DUKESHERER EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION... THE CANADIAN MODEL IS A BIT SLOWER MOVING THE UPPER TROF EAST...BUT ALL MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SHOW UPPER RIDGING BUILDING IN TOWARD MID WEEK. BEING SLOWER FROM THE BEGINNING...THE CANADIAN IS ALSO LAGS THE NEXT COLD FRONT UNTIL THURSDAY...WHILE THE AVN/MRF SHOWS THE FRONT MOVING IN WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WILL ADD PCPN CHCS FOR LATE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. HIGH PRESSURE SLIDES IN BY THURSDAY NIGHT AND DRIFTS EAST BY FRIDAY. A WARM FRONT SHOULD LIFT NORTHWARD ON THE RETURN FLOW BEHIND THE HIGH. DECENT ISENTROPIC LIFT SHOULD HELP PRODUCE A FEW SHOWERS OR STORMS AS THE FRONT PASSES THRU OVERNIGHT. PREDOMINATE SOUTHWEST FLOW SHOULD BEGIN TO PUMP WARMER AIR INTO THE REGION BY EARLY NEXT WEEKEND. JK .GRR...NONE.
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:57 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Three quarters inch hail was reported by trained spotters 3 miles west of Wayland.
Three quarters inch hail was also reported by the public near Holland just north of the Allegan and Ottawa county line.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, June 2002
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: 5298567, 5298568.