Thunderstorm Wind, Koochiching
- When
- June 9, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Koochiching County, Ranier
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 48.617, -93.317
Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 9, 2002
Trees were blown down in the City Beach area.
Where it happened
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- 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 happened
The episode as NWS DLH wrote it up.
Trees were blown down in the City Beach area.
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 9, 2:04 PM CST, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:04 PM CST, 6 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 230 PM CDT SUN JUN 9 2002 FORECAST FOR THE NEXT PACKAGE WILL BE AFFECTS OF UPPER LOW. FOR TONIGHT...COOL EAST FLOW HAS INHIBITED ANY CONVECTION FROM FIRING OVER NORTHEASTERN MN THIS AFTERNOON...BUT ARE STILL A POSSIBILITY TONIGHT AS ISENTROPIC LIFT CONTINUES THIS EVENING. EXPECT MOST OVER FAR NORTHERN MN...NORTH OF SURFACE FRONT. TOMORROW WILL BE NEARLY A REPEAT OF TODAYS WEATHER...WITH THE BEST ISENTROPIC LIFT STARTING OUT IN WESTERN MN...THEN SPREADING EAST. MOISTURE NOT A PROBLEM WITH 850 DEW POINTS IN THE OVER 10C AND MIXING RATIOS 8 G/KG AND GREATER. THETA-E RIDGE SETS UP OVER EASTERN DAKOTAS/WESTERN MN TNT AND SLOWLY SHIFTS INTO NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA MONDAY NIGHT..AND INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN LATE MONDAY NIGHT. UNTIL MONDAY NIGHT WHEN FRONT MOVES THROUGH DO NOT EXPECT MUCH ORGANIZED CONVECTION. FOLLOWED GUIDANCE NUMBERS...BUT BROUGHT TEMPS DOWN FOR THE LAKE SUPERIOR SHORE AREAS. .DLH...NONE.
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 215 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:16 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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
- Flood in Minnesota, June 9 to 30, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 9 to 30, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 9, 2002
- High Wind in Oregon, June 9, 2002
- Flooding in Minnesota, June 9 to 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 9, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New Mexico, June 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, June 9, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 9 to 10, 2002
- Drought in Colorado, June 9 to 30, 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: 5306300.