Hail, St. Louis
- When
- June 22, 7:35 PM CST to June 24, 7:35 PM CST
- Where
- St. Louis County, Hibbing
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 47.417, -92.950
Hail in Minnesota, June 22 to 24, 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 22, 2:26 PM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:26 PM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 326 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002 FORECAST CONCERN WILL BE ON SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. CURRENT ZONE PACKAGE LOOKS REAL GOOD AND NO MAJOR CHANGES WILL BE MADE. ALL VOLITILE INDICIES ARE PEAKING THIS AFTERNOON. THIS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH A GOOD PORTION OF TONIGHT. HELICITIES FROM THE SFC UP ARE FAIRLY HIGH WITH PW RANGING IN THE 1.5 RANGE AND WBZ AROUND 10K WE SHOULD SEE ALL THE ABOVE WITH THESE TS...DAMAGING WINDS... CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING...LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...FLOODING...AND A TORNADO WOULDNT BE OUT OF THE QUESTION. .DLH...NONE. T.ERICKSON
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:19 UTC.
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
- Heat in Wisconsin, June 22 to 25, 2002
- Rip Current in North Carolina, June 22, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Wisconsin, June 22, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Minnesota, June 22 to 24, 2002
- Flooding in Wisconsin, June 22, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Montana, June 22 to 23, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, June 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 22, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, June 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Dakota, June 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 22 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Wisconsin, June 22, 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: 5306291.