Name: Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 8, 2002
Start: 2002-07-08T19:10
End: 2002-07-08T19:10
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 happened

The episode as NWS DLH wrote it up.

Boats were thrown from lifts onto docks; docks were mangled.

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 Jul 8, 2:30 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:30 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before

MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-090930-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
330 PM CDT MON JUL 8 2002

MAIN CHALLENGE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS IS RESOLVING THE NEXT SYSTEM TO
AFFECT THE AREA TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. MODELS AGREE PRETTY WELL ON
AMOUNT AND STRENGTH OF THE NEXT SYSTEM COMING IN ACROSS THE NORTHERN
PLAINS...BRINGING ANOTHER HEAVY RAIN BAND TO THE NORTHLAND...THIS
TIME OVER THE SW PORTION OF THE CWA. THE LATEST MESOETA FAVORS THE
12Z AVN A LITTLE MORE YET...BRINGING THE BAND A BIT TO THE NE.
WITH ALL THE DRY AIR MOVING ACROSS THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION...
AND WITH NE WINDS...THE PCPN SHOULD INDEED HAVE A HARD TIME
ARRIVING IN THE WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR REGION.

WILL BRING SMALL CHANCE POPS IN BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN THE SW
AREAS...BUT LOOKING AT THE 18Z MESOETA...WE MAY HAVE TO BUMP POPS UP
AFTER SUBSEQUENT RUNS. THE MAIN AREA FOR RAINFALL ON TUESDAY NIGHT
WILL BE IN THE SW HALF...BEFORE THE SYSTEM DROPS TO THE SOUTH ON
WEDNESDAY...TAKING THE CLOUDS AND THE PCPN WITH IT.

TEMPS ARE A BIT TRICKY AS WELL. WITH LIMITED SUNSHINE IN THE SW
AREAS...TEMPS ARE LIKELY NOT TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. WILL
FOLLOW MOS TEMPS THERE...BUT GIVEN SOME SUNSHINE FOR TIME...WILL
BRING TEMPS UP A NOTCH OR TWO. EXTREMELY DRY AIR WILL PUSH ACROSS
THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY...BRINGING AN END TO THE PCPN...AND DRY
EASTERLY FLOW.

.DLH...NONE.

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The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Crow Wing

When: July 8, 7:10 PM CST
Where: Crow Wing County, 4 mi S of Breezy Pt
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 46.550, -94.200

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

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: 5310471.