Hail, Cass
- When
- June 14, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Cass County, 4 mi NW of Longville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 47.017, -94.267
Hail in Minnesota, June 14, 2002
1 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
- 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 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 Jun 14, 1:50 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:50 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 250 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2002 FORECAST FOCUS IS ON PCPN TRENDS THIS EVENING...THEN CLOUDS AND TEMPS. MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH SOME MINOR DIFFERENCES. WILL GO WITH A BLEND OF THE ETA AND AVN. FIRST PIECE OF SHORT WAVE ENERGY...IN WHAT IS BECOMING NW FLOW ALOFT...CLIPS THE CWFA THIS EVENING. PVA AND H7 OMEGA FIELDS INDICATE SOURCE OF LIFT...AND SFC HEATING HAS INITIATED -TSRA IN NW MN. THESE -TSRA WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AT LEAST SUNDOWN WHEN INSTABILITY FROM SFC HEATING IS LOST. AREA FORECAST TIME SECTIONS ALSO INDICATE A DRYING TREND AFTER 06Z/15. WILL MENTION EVENING -TSRA FOLLOWED BY CLEARING TREND. AVN PROGS PCPN IN NW WI ON SATURDAY IN CONTINUED RESIDUE AREA FROM DEPARTING H5 UPPER LOW. THIS APPEARS OVERDONE AND HAVE OPTED FOR THE ETA SOLUTION AND THE DRY FORECAST. AMPLE SUNSHINE EXPECTED WITH ONLY THIN LAYERS OF MOISTURE FROM AREA TIME SECTIONS TO GENERATE A FEW CU. HAVE BLENDED MOS VALUES FOR TEMPS. SECOND PIECE OF SHORT WAVE ENERGY TAKES AIM ON THE NORTHERN FA SATURDAY NIGHT. THIS TIME...THE BULK OF THE LIFT AND MOISTURE REMAINS NORTH OF THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER. WILL GO WITH A DRY FORECAST. WEAK AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD KEEP THE FA DRY ON SUNDAY. AGAIN... LIMITED MOISTURE SHOULD LIMIT CLOUD DEVELOPMENT. MOS TEMPS BLENDED. .DLH...NONE. GSF
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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 in Colorado, June 14, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, June 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 14, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in New York, June 14 to 15, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 14, 2002
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 14, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 14, 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: 5306294.