2 flash flood, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 8:05 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
905 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002
ONLY MINOR SHIFTS REQUIRED TO ZONES. WILL LEAVE THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY
FOR AFTERNOON EVERYWHERE AS STATED AS AIR MASS IS READY. REMOVING CAP
WILL BE ONLY DIFFICULTY AND WILL MONITOR THAT THROUGHOUT DAY. WITH
THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW ACROSS NORTH REINFORCING STABLE LAYER NORTH OF
FRONTAL BOUNDARY...LOW WILL LIKELY MOVE A SHADE FARTHER SOUTH THAN
GFK. SO WILL NOT SHIFT THE WIND TO SOUTHERLY THERE. MAX TEMPERATURES
IN LOW/MID 70S MIGHT BE OK THOUGH.
.FGF...FLOOD WATCH ENTIRE FORECAST AREA TODAY.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 404 EXPIRED.
GVMNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-111430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 700 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2002 ...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT... SYNOPSIS...A COLD FRONT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA LAST EVENING. BEHIND THIS FRONT...DRIER AIR WILL WORK ITS WAY IN. HOWEVER WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER AIR LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AFTER 3 PM AND THEN DISSIPATE THIS EVENING. RIDDLE NNNN
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-101430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 720 AM CDT SUN JUN 9 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODAY AND THIS EVENING... SYNOPSIS...A WARM FRONT EXTENDS FROM NEAR BEMIDJI TO FARGO TO MOBRIDGE SOUTH DAKOTA. LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ALONG THE FRONT TODAY. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL EXIST OVER THE AREA TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THEN AS THE SYSTEM MOVES EAST OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL END. AREA OF CONCERN...A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR EARLY THIS MORNING NORTH OF A DEVILS LAKE TO GRAFTON TO BAUDETTE LINE. THEN ALL OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA IS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. TIME...FROM 7 AM UNTIL 10 AM THIS MORNING...AND THEN AGAIN FROM 3 PM UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING. TYPE OF HAZARD...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND FLOODING. RIDDLE NNNN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
1019 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002
...DELAYED REPORTS FOR 6/9/02 EVENT ADDED...
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0700 AM 5W OGEMA MN 1.50 INCH HAIL
06/09/02 BECKER
0700 AM 3W OGEMA MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/02 BECKER
0815 AM 3E ZERKEL MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/02 CLEARWATER DAMAGE TO RESIDENCE DUE TO
LIGHTNING AND WIND
0820 AM 7W JELLE MN WIND DAMAGE
06/09/02 BELTRAMI TREE LIMBS 2 TO 4 INCHES
DOWNED
0830 AM 2NW BECIDA MN WIND DAMAGE
06/09/02 HUBBARD TREE LIMBS 2 TO 4 INCHES
DOWNEDThe Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 227 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:56 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Most of the streets in town were flooded and some washouts were reported.
County roads 12 and 2 were closed and water was reported over many more roads. The Warroad River flooded the southwest part of town and 60 people were evacuated on the afternoon of the 10th. Half the businesses in town closed due to water damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, June 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: 5301025, 5301026, 5301027.