Name: Hail in Minnesota, July 30, 2002
Start: 2002-07-30T04:30
End: 2002-07-30T04:30
Location: Minnesota

Where it happened

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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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 30, 2:20 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:20 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
320 AM CDT TUE JUL 30 2002

FORECAST CHALLENGE INCLUDES TEMPERATURES NEXT FEW DAYS AND RAIN
POTENTIAL.

MODELS OVERALL IN PRETTY CLOSE AGREEMENT WITH MAIN FEATURES OVER
NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND WILL USE MIX FOR GRIDS.

IN NEAR TERM BAND OF TSRA ALONG NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES ASSOCIATED
WITH NOSE OF UPPER JET TRACKING ALONG INTERNATIONAL BORDER. TIMING
WOULD HAVE ANY TSRA CONFINED TO NE ZONES FROM FORECAST ISSUANCE TIME
INTO MID MORNING.

NEXT CONCERN IS POTENTIAL FOR REDVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS IN
PRETTY CLOSE AGREEMENT IN PUSHING BOUNDARY THROUGH ALL BUT FAR
SOUTHEAST FA THIS AFTERNOON. MODEL SOUNDINGS INDICATE FAIRLY STRONG
CAPPING/CONVECTIVE INHIBITION WITH CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES NEAR 100
SO ANY DEVELOPMENT WILL LIKELY BE LATE. GUT FEELING IS BOUNDARY WILL
BE THROUGH FA HOWEVER TO BE SAFE WILL INCLUDE CHANCE OVER FAR SE
LATE TODAY. OTHERWISE REGION COMES QUICKLY AROUND TO RETURN FLOW AS
NEXT STRONGER COLD FRONT APPROACHES FA TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY.
FAVORED FORCING OVERNIGHT LOOKS TO BE ACROSS SD BASE ON ORIENTATION
AND CONVERGENCE WITH LOW LEVEL JET. HOWEVER WITH FROPA WILL MAINTAIN
POPS. TIMING OF FROPA WILL AGAIN HINGE ON POTENTIAL FOR
REDEVELOPMENT DURING AFTERNOON. RESPECTABEL COOL DOWN EXPECTED IN
WAKE OF FRONT WITH NEXT CHANCE OF PCPN STILL IN THE PICTURE FOR
FRIDAY NIGHT.

.FGF...NONE.

VOELKER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 30, 12:22 AM CST, 4 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS, ND
122 AM CDT TUE JUL 30 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1135 PM    7 NW CAVALIER             ND   .75 INCH HAIL
07/29/02   PEMBINA

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 226 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:31 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Beltrami

When: July 30, 4:30 AM CST
Where: Beltrami County, 3 mi NE of Waskish
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 48.200, -94.450

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

More

Every storm in Minnesota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5308493.