Hail in Minnesota, April 16, 2002

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.

NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 15, 8:45 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
945 PM CDT MON APR 15 2002

FORECAST FOCUS TONIGHT REVOLVES AROUND SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT. LOW LEVEL JET INCREASING...IN LINE WITH 18Z MESOETA.
WIND PROFILER IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA HAS INCREASED TO 50 KNOTS AT
02Z AND THE WOOD LAKE ONE IS UP TO 25 KNOTS AT 01Z. AS WARMER AIR
SURGES NORTH...850MB LIFTED INDEX DROPS TO -2 TO -4. WARM FRONT FROM
NEBRASKA INTO NORTHERN MINNESOTA AND INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET WILL
KEEP ELEVATED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS A THREAT. WILL KEEP CURRENT
ZONE WORDING IN REGARDS TO THIS.

FOG REMAINS OVER LAKE SUPERIOR...COMING ONSHORE AT THE HEAD OF THE
LAKE. KCOQ DOWN TO 1.5 MILES WITH KDLH REPORTING FOG AT TIMES AS
WELL. WITH HIGHER DEWPOINTS OVER LAKE SUPERIOR...EXPECT FOG TO
PERSIST THROUGH THE NIGHT.

.DLH...NONE.

MELDE

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Hail

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

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

• Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, April 16 to 17, 2002$307,000 · F3 · 64 events
• Damaging Wind and High Wind in Kansas, April 16, 20021 death · $50,000 · 52 kt wind · 9 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, April 16, 2002$250,000 · 1 in hail · 31 events
• Heat in Georgia, April 16 to 22, 200297 events
• Damaging Winds in Minnesota, April 16, 2002$300,000 · 74 kt wind · 4 events
• Wildfire in North Dakota, April 16, 2002$250,000 · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, April 16, 2002$47,000 · 1.5 in hail · 29 events
• Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, April 16, 2002$30,000 · F1 · 14 events
• Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002$65,000 · 65 kt wind · 8 events
• Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002$60,000 · 57 kt wind · 3 events
• Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002$50,000 · 61 kt wind · 5 events
• Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002$50,000 · 57 kt wind · 3 events

Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, April 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: 5296781.