Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 10, 2002

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 10, 2002
Start: 2002-06-10T17:20
End: 2002-06-10T23:32
Location: Minnesota

June 10, 2002 · NWS MPX · 15 events in 10 counties and zones

11 hail, 4 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.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 15

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 Jun 10, 2:55 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:55 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
355 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

-TSRA FORMING ALONG SFC COOL FRONT IN ENHANCED CONVERGENCE AREA OVR
FAR ERN SODAK...TRACKING NE INTO FAR WEST CENTRAL MN SHORTLY.
LATEST LAPS DATA INDICATED CENTROID OF -10 SFC COMPUTED LIS IN FAR
WEST CENTRAL MN...AND ALSO IN FAR SW.   DESPITE LACK OF WIDESPREAD
INSOLATION...FAIRLY UNSTABLE WITH LAPSE RATES VCNTY OF 6 TO 7
DEGREES.  SLIGHT COOLING AND DRYING AT MID LEVELS WITH LOW LEVEL
CONVERGENCE SHOULD CONTINUE TO FEED CONVECTION ACRS WESTERN AREAS
NEXT FEW HOURS.  MAIN THREAT HAIL AND STRONG WINDS...HOWEVER
INTIALLY FREEZING LEVEL QUITE HIGH.  FARTHER EAST...TROPICAL S/W
CIRCULATION PUSHING ACRSS RIVER INTO FAR WESTERN WI.  SCT CONVECTION
A THREAT NEXT SEVERAL HOURS IN ERN PTNS OF WI CWA.  EDDY SHIFTS NEWD
THIS EVE AS SFC COLD FRONT OVER FAR WEST SPREADS SLOWLY EWD.  MODELS
IN GENERAL AGREEMENT ON BRINGING SFC FRONTAL BOUNDARY INTO WRN WI BY
12Z TUE.  THETA-E ADVECTION FAIRLY WEAK AHEAD OF FRONT LATER
TONIGHT...BUT MID LEVELS REMAIN UNSTABLE.  SECONDARY S/W CIRCULATION
NOTED ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY OVER NERN KS/ERN NE CONTRIBUTING TO
CONVECTION IN THAT AREA...MAY ALSO SERVE TO SAP SOME OF THE INFLOW
TONIGHT.

FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLS ACROSS CENTRAL/SRN IA ON TUE.  AVN APPEARS
TO BE HAVING SOME CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK PROBLEMS ON TUESDAY WHILE
NGM/ETA MORE IN AGREEMENT ON ANY SIGNICIANT S/WS REMAINING FARTHER
SOUTH.  HENCE WL CONT DRY WORDING IN MN...BUT WL NEED TO WATCH SRN
AREAS.  SECOND MID LEVEL TROF PUSHES INTO NWRN MN TUE AFTN AND
EVENING BUT MOISTURE REMAINS SPARSE.  DRIER WESTERLY FLOW SHOULD
RESULT IN PLEASANT DAY ON WED.  EFP MODELS IN AGREEMNT ON CARRYING
FILLING LONG WAVE TROUGH ACRS MN AND UPR MIDWEST THRU EARLY FRI.
WITH NWRLY FLOW...WK UPR LEVEL RIDGING SETTING UP FOR MOST OF EFP
PD.  UPR LEVEL FLOW TO BECOME MORE ZONAL AS PACIFIC SYSTEM WKNS AND
PUSHES INLAND BY EARLY NEXT WEEK.
.MSP...NONE
MBK

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 190 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:19 UTC.

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Event by event

11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Stevens

When: June 10, 5:20 PM CST to 5:30 PM CST
Where: Stevens County, 1 mi N of Hancock
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 45.517, -95.800

Hail, Swift

When: June 10, 5:30 PM CST
Where: Swift County, 4 mi E of Swift Falls
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 45.400, -95.350

Hail, Pope

When: June 10, 6:20 PM CST
Where: Pope County, 2 mi SW of Terrace
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 45.500, -95.350

Hail, Stearns

When: June 10, 7:18 PM CST
Where: Stearns County, 1 mi NW of St Martin
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 45.517, -94.700

Hail, Wright

When: June 10, 9:25 PM CST
Where: Wright County, Montrose
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.067, -93.917

Hail, Carver

When: June 10, 9:57 PM CST
Where: Carver County, Watertown
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.967, -93.850

Thunderstorm Wind, Carver

When: June 10, 10:00 PM CST
Where: Carver County, Watertown
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates: 44.967, -93.850

Large tree limb down in street.

Hail, Hennepin

When: June 10, 10:23 PM CST
Where: Hennepin County, Deephaven
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.933, -93.517

Thunderstorm Wind, Hennepin

When: June 10, 10:23 PM CST
Where: Hennepin County, Deephaven
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.933, -93.517

Few trees down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Hennepin

When: June 10, 10:25 PM CST
Where: Hennepin County, Orono
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.967, -93.550

Few trees down.

Hail, Scott

When: June 10, 10:37 PM CST
Where: Scott County, 1 mi E of Blakeley
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.617, -93.833

Hail, Hennepin

When: June 10, 10:39 PM CST
Where: Hennepin County, Bloomington
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 44.817, -93.317

At Highway 100 and Interstate 494.

Hail, Hennepin

When: June 10, 10:40 PM CST
Where: Hennepin County, Richfield
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.883, -93.250

At Highway 62 and Interstate 35W.

Thunderstorm Wind, Dakota

When: June 10, 10:50 PM CST
Where: Dakota County, Mendota Hgts
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.883, -93.150

Large tree limb down across road.

Hail, Rice

When: June 10, 11:32 PM CST
Where: Rice County, 1 mi S of Shieldsville
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 44.350, -93.400

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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

Every storm in Minnesota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Minnesota, June 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: 5301818, 5301819, 5301820, 5301821, 5301822, 5301823, 5301824, 5301825, 5301826, 5301827, 5301828, 5301829, 5301830, 5301831, 5301832.