Name: Hail in Minnesota, June 10 to 11, 2002
Start: 2002-06-10T23:56
End: 2002-06-11T00:15
Location: Minnesota

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 happened

The episode as NWS ARX wrote it up.

Dime size hail was reported by the public and law enforcement officials.

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 La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 2:05 PM CST, 9 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:05 PM CST, 9 hours 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
305 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

FORECAST CONCERNS FOR THIS PACKAGE INCLUDE PRECIPITATION CHANCES
TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...ALSO CLOUDS AND TEMPERATURES A
CONCERN.

19Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE NORTH
DAKOTA/SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER. WARM FRONT EXTENDS FROM THE LOW ACROSS
NORTHERN MINNESOTA...WITH TRAILING COLD FRONT SOUTHWARD INTO
WESTERN KANSAS. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING QUITE A FEW
CLOUDS AHEAD OF SYSTEM...WITH MAINLY CLEAR SKIES TO ITS WEST. WATER
VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS WEAK WAVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA GENERATING
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA.

NEITHER THE 12Z ETA OR AVN INITIALIZED WITH WEAK 700MB WAVE ACROSS
KANSAS THIS MORNING...OTHERWISE NO MAJOR ERRORS. IN THE LONGER
TERM...AVN IS A LITTLE FASTER IN PUSHING THE FRONT THROUGH THE
FORECAST AREA AND HAVE TRENDED TOWARD THE SLIGHTLY SLOWER ETA.

IN THE SHORT TERM...WEAK WAVE NOW IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...WILL
CONTINUE MOVING NORTHWARD...AS SECOND 700MB WAVE OVER KANSAS WEAKENS
AS IT PUSHES NORTH. FARTHER WEST...SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL PUSH INTO
WESTERN MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. CONVERGENCE ALONG FRONT...ALONG WITH
MODERATE INSTABILITIES ALREADY PRODUCING CONVECTION. THIS WILL
SLIDE EAST WITH FRONT. EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER ACROSS WARM SECTOR WILL
LIMIT SEVER POTENTIAL ACROSS OUR AREA...BUT EXPECT CONVECTION TO
MOVE ALONG WITH FRONT TONIGHT.

ON TUESDAY...FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AS UPPER LOW
TRANSVERSES TOWARD LAKE WINNIPEG. ATMOSPHERE MAY RECOVER ENOUGH FROM
OVERNIGHT AND MORNING CONVECTION FOR STRONGER STORMS IN THE
AFTERNOON. LIMITING FACTOR FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE WEAK LOW LEVEL
FLOW. WILL CONTINUE TO CARRY CHANCE POPS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

DRIER AIR WILL BEGIN TO FILTER IN TUESDAY NIGHT AS FRONT SETTLES TO
OUR SOUTH. SOUTHERN ZONES WILL HAVE BEST CHANCE FOR LINGERING
CONVECTION. AFTER THAT...A DRY AND PLEASANT PERIOD FOR WEDNESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WITH SHOWER CHANCES INCREASING AGAIN THURSDAY...AS
UPPER LOW AND ASSOCIATED SPOKES OF ENERGY ROTATE THROUGH THE AREA.

IN THE EXTENDED...UPPER LOW SLOWLY PUSHES EAST OF AREA AS NORTHWEST
FLOW EVOLVES OVER THE AREA. FAST MOVING SYSTEMS IN THE FLOW HARD
TO TIME AND THUS WILL KEEP CHANCES GOING THROUGH THE PERIOD.

GUIDANCE NUMBERS ONCE AGAIN NOT TO BAD...SO PLAN NO MAJOR
DEVIATIONS.

.LSE...NONE.

RABERDING

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Wabasha

When: June 10, 11:56 PM CST
Where: Wabasha County, 3 mi S of Lake City
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.400, -92.267

Hail, Wabasha

When: June 11, 12:15 AM CST
Where: Wabasha County, 1 mi N of Zumbro Falls
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 44.300, -92.433

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, 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: 5305682, 5305683.