Hail, Waseca
- When
- June 12, 3:14 PM CST
- Where
- Waseca County, 8 mi N of Waseca
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.200, -93.500
Hail in Minnesota, June 12, 2002
2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 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 12, 1:31 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 1:31 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 231 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 GOOD AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE AVN AND ETA ON MOVING THE VERTICALLY STACKED LOW JUST NORTH OF ND TO SOUTHERN LMIC BY FRIDAY MORNING. MAIN DIFFERENCE SEEN IS WITH THE H8 TEMPERATURES ON FRIDAY. THE AVN IS SEVERAL DEGREES COOLER. USING THE COOLER SOLUTION STILL YIELDS HIGHS REACHING INTO THE LOWER 70S..WHICH IS WHAT IS OCCURRING THIS AFTERNOON ON THE BACK SIDE OF THIS LOW IN ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN. IN THE MEAN TIME..MAIN FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS ACROSS IA..NE AND KS WHILE A SURFACE TROF OR OCCLUSION EXTENDS SOUTHWARD FROM NEAR KINL. RUC AND META SHOWING QUITE A BIT OF INSTABILITY REMAINING OVER EASTERN MN AND WI TONIGHT. Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE ALSO INDICATING CONSIDERABLE FORCING. WILL MENTION CHANCE TRW IN THE EAST WITH A CHANCE OF RW IN WESTERN MN. CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS ON TAP FOR THURSDAY ALONG WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS. BEST Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE REMAINS OVER WI DURING THE DAY. META PRECIPITATION FIELD QUITE SMALL ACROSS MN AND WONDER JUST HOW MUCH SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL REALLY OCCUR ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST. WILL TRY FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH A CHANCE OF AN AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM. WILL DRY THINGS OUT ACROSS MN ON FRIDAY WITH JUST A SMALL POP IN WI. MENTIONED A CHANCE OF MORNING SHOWERS ON SATURDAY WITH THE SHORT WAVE DROPPING SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA. SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK LOOKS DRY WITH RATHER PLEASANT TEMPERATURES. WILL TRY TO HAVE THE OZFMPX OUT BY 3 PM. .MSP...NONE. HILTBRAND
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 9:57 AM CST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
MNZ041>045-048>053-055>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016- 023>028-122100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1057 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME LOCATIONS IN THIS RISK AREA INCLUDE THE TWIN CITIES...ST CLOUD...MANKATO...WILLMAR...ALBERT LEA...MENOMONIE AND EAU CLAIRE. THE AIR MASS OVER THE REGION WILL DESTABILIZE THIS AFTERNOON AS THE UPPER JET STREAM NOSES ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A LARGE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...APPROACHING FROM NORTH DAKOTA...WILL ALSO ENHANCE THE CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING AS IT MOVES INTO MINNESOTA. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:14 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Steele
- When
- June 12, 3:30 PM CST to 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Steele County, 8 mi WNW of Owatonna
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.133, -93.367
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
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Nebraska, June 12, 2002
- High Surf in Hawaii, June 12 to 14, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, June 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 12, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, June 12 to 13, 2002
- Flooding in Vermont, June 12 to 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 12, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 12 to 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 12, 2002
- Flooding in New York, June 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Illinois, June 12 to 13, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 12 to 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5301923, 5301924.