Hail, Nicollet
- When
- June 3, 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- Nicollet County, Nicollet
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.283, -94.200
Hail in Minnesota, June 3, 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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 2, 2:00 PM CST, 12 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:00 PM CST, 12 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 300 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002 SCT LGT SHWRS WHICH MVD THRU EARLIER IN DAY WERE TIED NICELY TO 700 MB THETA E ADVCTN. ATTM...DRY ELY LOW LVL FLOW CONTS ACRS AREA...BUT ELEVATED SHWRS/TSTMS DVLPG ACRS S INTO CNTL MN IN INCRSG AREA OF 850MB THETA E ADVTN AND INCRSG MID LVL INSTAB. EXPECT TSTMS TO BCM MR WDSPRD ACRS S TWRD CNTL MN THIS EVE AND NITE AS PWATS ARND 1.5 INCH PUSH INTO S MN...K INDEX RESPONDS WITH VALUES PROGGED INTO THE MID 30S. LLJ EXPECTED TO INCRS TO 50+ KTS CNTL KS TWRD OMA THIS EVE WITH ADTL STORMS EXPECTED TO DVLP ON N EDGE OF CAP THEN LIFTING NE INTO S MN...BEST TKNS DIFL HOWEVER EXPECTED TO REMAIN ACRS IA. WILL CONT WITH MENTION OF SM HEAVY RAINS SC MN OVERNITE. BEST SVR CHCS WL REMAIN S OF CWA...CLOSER TO SFC WRMFNT. WBZ AT MPX THIS MRNG OF 13K SHUD ALSO HELP TO LIMIT HAIL POTENTIAL. WK 850 MB WAA INTO MONDAY AND WK SHRTWV MVG THRU WILL KEEP SHWR CHCS GOING. BEST POPS IN SE CWA CLOSER TO SFC BNDRY. HIGH PRES BUILDS SE INTO N CWA MON NITE AND INTO RMDR AREA TUES BRNG A DRY PRD FOR MID WEEK. AS FAR AS TEMPS GO...AFTER EXPECTED RAINS TNGHT THE ENE LOW LVL FLOW SHOULD KEEP AMPLE CLDS ACRS AREA FOR A COOL DAY TMRW WITH HIGHS MAINLY 60 TO 65. UPPED MOS TEMPS A BIT FOR TUES. .MSP...NONE. PAULSON
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:02 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
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, June 3, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, June 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Iowa, June 3 to 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 3 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, June 3 to 4, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 3, 2002
- Hail in Colorado, June 3, 2002
- Hail in Colorado, June 3, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, June 3, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Illinois, June 3, 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: 5301854.