Name: Flood in Minnesota, June 24 to 27, 2002
Start: 2002-06-24T05:00
End: 2002-06-27T11:45
Location: Minnesota

Where it happened

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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 happened

The episode as NWS DLH wrote it up.

The St. Louis River at Scanlon crested at 11.8 feet, 1.3 feet above flood stage, causing minimal damage.

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 24, 1:25 AM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 1:25 AM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
225 AM CDT MON JUN 24 2002

MAIN FOCUS WILL BE CONVECTION AND TEMPS.

WMFNT EXTENDS FROM A LO IN NERN SD EWD TO TWIN CITIES. SIGNATURE IS
THE WIND SHIFTS, BUT LOW 70S DEW POINTS N OF THE FRONT IN CNTRL MN.
TSMTS GOING IN BRD-PKD AREA ARE ALG THE NRN EDGE OF THIS MSTR POOL
AND UNDER A PVA MAX. THIS AREA OF WMFNT OVERRUNNING WILL CONTINUE
TSTMS INTO MID MRNG. SFC PRES FALLS N OF THE AREA AND THE
APPEARANCE OF A SFC LOW IN ND LEND CREDENCE TO THE MODEL SOLUTION OF
REDVLPG THE SFC PTN NWD ALG THE CANADIAN BDR. CONVECTION IN NWRN WI
IS IN AN AREA OF LO LVL CNVRGC BUT UNDER AN AREA OF NVA. SO THREAT
WILL BE MINOR THERE AS MOST CONVECTION CONTINUES E OF THERE IN A
MORE FAVORABLE DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT.

HIGH DEW PTS AND THE 500 MB COLD POOL IN THE ERN DAKS CREATE AN
AREA OF VERY HIGH CAPE VALUES AND LOW LI. HWVR...THE WM SWLY FLOW
THAT DEVLPS WILL CAP THE AREA UNTIL MID TO LATE AFTN. AT THAT TIME
TEMPS OF 82 TO 85 APPR TO BE NEEDED TO IGNITE TSTMS. AT THAT, THEY
WOULD BE SCTD CELLS OVR CNTRL MN BUT WOULD BE MORE FOCUSED ALG THE
CAN BDR ALG THE WMFNT BOUNDARY. SO WELL GO WITH SCTD TSTMS TDA.

DUE TO SCT NATURE OF TSTMS, WE WILL DROP THE FLOOD WATCH AT THE 415
AM WHICH WAS ITS ORIGINAL EXPIRATION TIME.

ETA IS DOING A GOOD JOB OF LOCATING THE SMALL VORT MAXES THAT ARE
DRIVING CONVECTION. SO WELL USE THE WARMER NGM AND ETAMOS TEMP
TRENDS.

.DLH...NONE.

CS

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Southern St. Louis / Carlton

When: June 24, 5:00 AM CST to June 27, 11:45 AM CST
Where: Southern St. Louis / Carlton forecast zone
Reported by: DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Coordinates: 47.091, -92.569 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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: 5306296.