Thunderstorm Wind, Mille Lacs
- When
- July 20, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Mille Lacs County, 3 mi NW of Vineland
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 46.200, -93.800
Tree down.
Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 20, 2002
2 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 8:05 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 8:05 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
905 PM CDT SAT JUL 20 2002
FORECAST CONCERN IS STILL POTENTIAL OF CONVECTION. 20Z AND 00Z KMPX
SOUNDING PRETTY CAPPED AND 13C 700 MB TEMPS ARC ACROSS SOUTHERN AND
CENTRAL MN. BOUNDARY STILL ACROSS CENTRAL MN THOUGH. LOOKING AT THIS
EVENING 850 MB WINDS..AND 00Z FORECAST FROM 18Z ETA AND AVN...LOOKS
LIKE AVN CLOSER WITH MORE SW WINDS ACROSS S AND CENTRAL MN. AVN
FORECAST 850 MB MOIST CONV BEST OVER NE MN THIS EVENING AND THEN
DEVELOPING MORE OUT IN SD LATE TONIGHT. AVN SHOWING UPPER DIV BEST
OVER SD OVERNIGHT. THICKNESS JUST A LITTLE HIGH FOR SEVERE WX OVER
CWA BUT WILL LEAVE IN SOME MENTION N BUT CUT POPS BACK MOST AREAS.
ISSUED HEAT ADVISORY EARLIER FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WITH POTENTIAL FOR
105 OR HIGHER INDEX INTO SUNDAY..WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS NEAR 80.
.MSP...HEAT ADVISORY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY SOUTH CENTRAL ZONES S OF
LINE KULM TO KFBL.
RICHARDSONThe radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:12 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Mille Lacs
- When
- July 20, 10:35 PM CST
- Where
- Mille Lacs County, 5 mi NNW of Isle
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 46.200, -93.500
Trees down, including one on a trailer.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Missouri, July 20 to 22, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 20, 2002
- Heat in Maryland, July 20, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 20, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 20, 2002
- Heat in Illinois, July 20 to 22, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 20 to 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, July 20, 2002
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, July 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: 5309912, 5309913.