Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 25, 2002

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 25, 2002
Start: 2002-06-25T16:10
End: 2002-06-25T23:58
Location: Minnesota

June 25, 2002 · NWS MPX · 18 events in 9 counties and zones

15 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 18

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 25, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
330 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

FORECAST CONCERN NEAR TERM...CONVECTION INITIATION/FLOODING
POTENTIAL.

LINE OF STORMS DEVELOPING ALONG DEVELOPING COLD FRONT OVER THE
EASTERN DAKOTAS.  SVR WATCH ALREADY IN PLACE.  OTHERWISE...OUTFLOW
BOUNDARY OVER SOUTHEAST MN/SOUTHWEST WI BEGINNING TO FIRE.  BELIEVE
MAIN SHOW WILL BE UPPER TROF MOVING INTO WESTERN MN WITH COLD FRONT
SWEEPING TO CENTRAL MN  AROUND 06Z...THEN SAGGING OUT OF SOUTHERN MN
BY 12Z WED.  WITH GROUND SATURATED OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL MN AND
MOSAIC FFG INDICATING 1 HR VALUES AROUND .60 INCH AND 3 HR TOTALS
AROUND 1 INCH...WILL LIKELY SEE SOME RAPID RUNOFF IF THESE AREAS SEE
THUNDERSTORMS.  ISSUED A FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS AREA FOR TONIGHT.

DRIER CONDITIONS MOVE IN WED-THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK.
TEMPERATURES NOT COOLING ALL THAT MUCH...WITH READINGS MOVING BACK
INTO THE 90S BY THE WEEKEND...AND UPPER RIDE OVER THE AREA.

.MSP...FLOOD WATCH MUCH OF CENTRAL MN....SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR
WILLMAR TO ANOKA...AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEW ULM TO RED WING.
 DWE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 12:51 PM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
151 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0520 PM    ISANTI                    MN   FLOOD
06/24/02   ISANTI                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER. 4 INCHES OF
                                          RAIN IN ONE AND A HALF
                                          HOURS. 2-3 FEET OF
                                          WATER COVING MAIN
                                          STREET. MANY BASEMENTS
                                          FLOODED.

0628 PM    WAVERLY                   MN   WIND DAMAGE
06/24/02   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          POWERLINE DOWN.

1049 PM    HOWARD LAKE               MN   WIND DAMAGE
06/24/02   WRIGHT                         LARGE TREE DOWN IN
                                          ROAD. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

1111 PM    DELANO                    MN   WIND DAMAGE
06/24/02   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          POWERLINE DOWN.
                                          STARTED FIRE. POWER OUT
                                          IN DELANO.

1111 PM    HOWARD LAKE               MN   WIND DAMAGE
06/24/02   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
                                          TREE BLOWN ONTO SHED.

1156 PM    ANNANDALE                 MN   WIND DAMAGE
06/24/02   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER. TREE TOPS
                                          BLOWN ON THE ROAD.

1230 AM    ANNANDALE                 MN   WIND DAMAGE
06/25/02   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          POWERLINE DOWN.

0129 AM    DELANO                    MN   WIND DAMAGE
06/25/02   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
                                          LARGE TREE DOWN.

0153 AM    WAVERLY                   MN   FLOOD
06/25/02   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL. A
                                          MUDSLIDE TOPPLED TREES
                                          AND POWERLINES DOWN.

0230 AM    NEW GERMANY               MN   FLOOD
06/25/02   CARVER                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          CITY IS PUMPING SEWERS.
                                          MANY BASEMENTS FLOODED.

0230 AM    LESTER PRAIRIE            MN   FLOOD
06/25/02   MCLEOD                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          SOME ROADS CLOSED. SAND
                                          BAGGING IN CITY.

0230 AM    HAMBURG                   MN   FLOOD
06/25/02   CARVER                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          CITY IS PUMPING SEWERS.
                                          MANY BASEMENTS FLOODED.

Local storm report, Jun 25, 1:13 PM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
213 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0330 AM    LAKE SARAH                MN   FLOOD
06/25/02   HENNEPIN                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
                                          BASEMENTS FLOODED. LAKE
                                          FLOODING.

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:08 UTC.

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Event by event

15 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lac Qui Parle

When: June 25, 4:10 PM CST
Where: Lac Qui Parle County, 12 mi S of Marietta
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 44.850, -96.433

Hail, Kanabec

When: June 25, 4:52 PM CST to 5:02 PM CST
Where: Kanabec County, 10 mi N of Mora
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 46.033, -93.300

Hail, Kanabec

When: June 25, 5:05 PM CST
Where: Kanabec County, 4 mi N of Quamba
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.967, -93.183

Hail, Benton

When: June 25, 5:12 PM CST
Where: Benton County, Gilman
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.733, -93.967

Hail, Kanabec

When: June 25, 5:30 PM CST
Where: Kanabec County, 4 mi N of Quamba
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.967, -93.183

Hail, Benton

When: June 25, 5:30 PM CST to 5:45 PM CST
Where: Benton County, 1 mi N of Glendorado
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 45.600, -93.783

Hail, Mille Lacs

When: June 25, 5:48 PM CST
Where: Mille Lacs County, Princeton
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.567, -93.600

Hail, Lac Qui Parle

When: June 25, 5:50 PM CST
Where: Lac Qui Parle County, 5 mi W of Dawson
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.933, -96.167

Thunderstorm Wind, Mille Lacs

When: June 25, 5:55 PM CST
Where: Mille Lacs County, Princeton
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.567, -93.600

Tree uprooted. Large tree branches down. Power lines down.

Hail, Mille Lacs

When: June 25, 5:55 PM CST
Where: Mille Lacs County, Princeton
Measured: 2.5 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.567, -93.600

Hail, Isanti

When: June 25, 6:00 PM CST
Where: Isanti County, 12 mi W of Cambridge
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.583, -93.483

Hail, Isanti

When: June 25, 6:07 PM CST
Where: Isanti County, 2 mi SE of Braham
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 45.717, -93.133

Hail, Sherburne

When: June 25, 6:56 PM CST
Where: Sherburne County, 7 mi SSE of Princeton
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.467, -93.550

Hail, Anoka

When: June 25, 7:15 PM CST
Where: Anoka County, St Francis
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.400, -93.367

Hail, Le Sueur

When: June 25, 10:40 PM CST
Where: Le Sueur County, St Thomas
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.500, -93.750

Thunderstorm Wind, Waseca

When: June 25, 11:45 PM CST
Where: Waseca County, Janesville
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.117, -93.717

Trees down.

Hail, Waseca

When: June 25, 11:45 PM CST
Where: Waseca County, Janesville
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.117, -93.717

Thunderstorm Wind, Waseca

When: June 25, 11:58 PM CST
Where: Waseca County, Waseca Muni Arpt
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 44.067, -93.550

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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: 5302396, 5302397, 5302470, 5302471, 5302472, 5302473, 5302474, 5302475, 5302476, 5302477, 5302478, 5302479, 5302480, 5302481, 5302482, 5302483, 5302484, 5302485.