1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 2:30 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 330 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002 CLOSED LOW IS WORKING SOUTHEAST ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA LATE THIS WEDNESDAY WITH LOOP OF IR SATELITE PICS GIVING A GOOD HANDLE ON PROGRESS DEFORMATION ZONE WITH SYSTEM IS EVIDENT NORTH AND EAST OF SYSTEM AND THIS IS WHERE THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FELL. WE CARRY THE PRECIPITATION SOUTHWARD THROUGH EVENING AND LINGER IT OVER FAR SOUTHWEST CWA COUNTIES PAST SUNRISE ON THURSDAY. AFTER THAT...WE FOLLED MOS TEMPS THROUGH MONDAY AND THEN OPTED TO RAISE MIN TEMPERATURES OVER MEX FIGURES AND WE ALSO USED MID RANGED POPS FOR WHAT LOOKS LIKE YET ANOTHER MCS EVENT. .MSP...NONE. WET
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
530 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002
PRELIMINARY REPORTS RECEIVED AS OF 4 PM
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 AM BOWLUS MN FLOOD
07/10/02 MORRISON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. WATER COVERING
ROADS.
0800 AM ST CLOUD MN FLOOD
07/10/02 STEARNS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
10TH AVENUE FLOODED.
WATER UP TO CARS.
0830 AM HOLDINGFORD MN FLOOD
07/10/02 STEARNS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. 3.25 INCHES OF
RAINFALL. STORM SEWERS
OVERFLOWING.
0845 AM ST CLOUD MN FLOOD
07/10/02 STEARNS 2.7 INCHES OF RAIN IN 1
HOUR AND 45 MINUTEAS
REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. PEOPLE IN CARS
IN UNDERPASS HAD TO BE
RESCUED AS REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1000 AM ST CLOUD MN FLOOD
07/10/02 BENTON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
INTERSECTION AT HIGHWAY
10 AND 15 DETOURED.
1000 AM FOLEY MN FLOOD
07/10/02 BENTON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
HIGHWAY 23 DETOURED.
1125 AM LONG PRAIRIE MN FLOOD
07/10/02 TODD REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
WATER OVER HIGHWAYS 28,
27, COUNTY ROAD 38, AND
STREETS IN NORTHWEST
LONG PRAIRIE.
1140 AM FOLEY MN FLOOD
07/10/02 BENTON SEVERAL STREETS UNDER
WATER. CREEKS ABOVE
BANKS. BUSINESSES HAD
TO CLOSE IN FOLEY. SOME
COUNTY ROADS CLOSED.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1200 PM FRIDLEY MN FLOOD
07/10/02 ANOKA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
BASEMENTS OF BUSINESSES
ON UNIVERSITY AVENUE
FLOODED. 45TH AND 49TH
AVENUE ON UNIVERSITY
FLOODED.
0230 PM ROCKFORD MN FLOOD
07/10/02 WRIGHT DEBRIS PUSHED ONTO
ROADS BY WATER.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0230 PM PRINCETON MN FLOOD
07/10/02 SHERBURNE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
WATER OVER NUMEROUS
ROADS IN SHERBURNE
COUNTY. WATER COVERING
HIGHWAY 169.
0230 PM NORTH BENTON MN FLOOD
07/10/02 BENTON TOTAL RAINFALL ESTIMATE
OF 4 INCHES. CREEKS
OVER BANKS ACROSS
ALBERTA TOWNSHIP.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0230 PM ST CLOUD MN FLOOD
07/10/02 STEARNS TOTAL STORM RAINFALL
REPORT OF 4.22 INCHES
AS OF 230 PM AT ST.
CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY
REPORTED BY
METEOROLOGIST. LOTS OF
BASEMENTS FLOODED
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0300 PM ANOKA MN FLOOD
07/10/02 ANOKA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
ROOFS LEAKING ALL OVER
ANOKA COUNTY.
0300 PM ROBBINSDALE MN FLOOD
07/10/02 HENNEPIN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
FLOODING ON HIGHWAY 100
AND COUNTY ROAD 81.
0300 PM COON RAPIDS MN FLOOD
07/10/02 ANOKA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
UNCONFIRMED MUDSLIDE AT
HIGHWAY 10 AND ROUND
LAKE BLVD.
0400 PM LITTLE FALLS MN FLOOD
07/10/02 MORRISON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
UNOFFICIAL TOTAL STORM
RAINFALL REPORT OF 3.75
INCHES.The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:08 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado briefly crossed into Martin County from Jackson County (see corresponding entry for southwest Minnesota). Tornado remained over open country before dissipating.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 2002Warnings in Minnesota, July 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: 5310346.