Hail, Pine
- When
- August 11, 2:12 PM CST
- Where
- Pine County, 3 mi E of Beroun
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.917, -92.900
Hail in Minnesota, August 11, 2002
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 1:28 PM CST, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 1:28 PM CST, 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 228 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002 FORECAST FOCUS IS ON THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH TIMING OF FRONT TONIGHT...AND THE ETA WAS USED FOR MOST OF DETAILS. LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON FROM LEADER TO BRAINERD TO PINE CITY. THIS IN AREA OF SURFACE MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE NORTH OF WARM FRONT. SOME OF THESE QUITE STRONG... PARTICULARLY IN PINE COUNTY WHERE WE WARNED. MORE STORMS EXPECTED ALONG COLD FRONT IN THE DAKOTAS WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED. AIRMASS VERY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL EXTEND INTO TONIGHT. LAPS SOUNDING NEAR BRD SHOWS LI/S DOWN TO -8 WITH CAPE 2561 J/KG AT 18Z. 18Z SURFACED CAPE FROM SPC SHOWS SIMILAR VALUES. SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING...AND LOW LEVEL FLOW IS BACKED TO SOUTHEAST TOWARD BRD/XVG/PWC AND WILL ENHANCE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR STORMS TONIGHT WILL BE THE 850MB 40KT WIND MAX FROM SOUTHWEST MN TO KDLH BY 06Z. WARM AIR ADVECTION...SURFACE COLD FRONT AND UPPER WAVE TO COMBINE WITH LIFTED INDICES AT 850MB -4 TO -5C TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. SURFACE FRONT MOVES INTO EASTERN MN MONDAY MORNING...AND SHOWERS/STORMS WILL BE LIKELY AHEAD OF IT...ESPECIALLY IN NORTHWEST WI ZONES. COOLER AIR MOVES IN BEHIND FRONT FOR TUESDAY. WENT CLOSER TO WARMER FWC/ETAROS NUMBERS FOR MONDAY AS THE THE MAV IS BRINGING THE COOL AIR TOO QUICKLY. .DLH...NONE. MELDE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 8:15 AM CST, 5 hours 57 minutes before
MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-112000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 915 AM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... HAZARD... LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. DISCUSSION... LOW PRESSURE AND A COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THE EASTERN DAKOTAS TODAY...AND MOVE INTO MINNESOTA TONIGHT. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP TODAY...AND DRAW MOISTURE AND WARMTH INTO THE NORTHLAND. THE COMBINATION OF INCREASING MOISTURE...WARMTH AND LIFT WITH THE FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL CAUSE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE BRAINERD...AITKIN AND CASS LAKE AREAS WILL BE FIRST TO SEE THE STORMS DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON...THEN THEY WILL DEVELOP FURTHER NORTH AND EAST THIS EVENING AND LAST OVERNIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AFTER 300 PM IN CROW WING...AITKIN...ITASCA AND CASS COUNTIES...AND LATER THIS EVENING FURTHER NORTH AND EAST THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. .END MELDE
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Pennsylvania, August 11 to 20, 2002
- Tornado in North Dakota, August 11, 2002
- Heat in New Jersey, August 11 to 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 11, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, August 11, 2002
- Wildfire in California, August 11 to 15, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 11 to 12, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Ohio, August 11, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, August 11 to 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 11, 2002
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, August 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: 5312394.