Hail, Marshall
- When
- May 12, 5:17 PM CST
- Where
- Marshall County, 8 mi W of Argyle
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.333, -96.983
The hail covered the grass with some drifting.
Hail in Minnesota, May 12, 2002
2 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
- 2
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 12, 1:42 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 1:42 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 242 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE IS PRECIPITATION CHANCES OVERNIGHT... .CURRENT OBSERVATIONS... A LINE OF PRE FRONTAL SHOWERS CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. THE FRONT/TROUGH EXTENDS THROUGH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA WITH ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG IT. A FEW CONVECTIVE SHOWERS HAVE DEVELOPED BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. MAIN CHANGE BEHIND FRONT IS DRIER AIR AS TEMPERATURES ARE WARMER BEHIND FRONT WITH THE AREA HAVING SEEN MORE SUN. A POOL OF 45 DEGREE DEWPOINTS IS NOTED ACROSS THE NORTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY AND SHOULD AID IN THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. .SHORT TERM... MAIN CONCERN WILL BE COVERAGE OF CONVECTION THIS EVENING ALONG THE FRONT. NEW MESOETA AND RUC RUNS INDICATE THE GREATEST INSTABILITIES ARE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA(FA). THE AREA WILL BE UNDER THE LEFT EXIT REGION OF A 500 MB JET...WHICH SHOULD HELP ENHANCE LIFT. GIVEN LOW FREEZING LEVELS THIS EVENING...A FEW STORMS MAY CONTAIN SOME SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA BY MIDNIGHT WITH SOME SHOWERS LINGERING INTO THE MORNING HOURS OVER NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .MID TERM... HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO TO THE FA ON MONDAY AND WILL HELP PUSH THE CLOUD COVER EAST OF THE REGION. CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES ARE WITHIN REACH DURING THE AFTERNOON...SO DO EXPECT SOME CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT. THE RIDGE SETS UP OVER THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT AND WILL LIGHT WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES TO MUCH OF THE AREA. THIS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S BY TUESDAY MORNING. EXPECT NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE SEASONAL TEMPERATURES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS +8 TO +12 CELSIUS 850 MB TEMPERATURES MOVE IN. ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY AS THE NEXT FRONT ENTERS THE UPPER MIDWEST. EXTENDED...LONG RANGE MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH MRF COMPROMISE ON TIMING AND ECMWF SLOWEST. 500MB TROF DROPS THROUGH AREA ON THU...SO KEPT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THEN... UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AND SFC HIGH BUILD INTO REGION THROUGH WEEKEND... SO KEPT PRETTY MUCH DRY. AS FAR AS TEMPS...FMR WARMER THAN MEX...SO LEANED TOWARDS MEX VALUES...KEEPING TEMPS AT OR BELOW NORMAL. .FGF...NONE. DONAVON/NG
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:16 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Marshall
- When
- May 12, 5:35 PM CST
- Where
- Marshall County, 3 mi SW of Argyle
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.300, -96.867
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
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, May 12 to 31, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, May 12, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 12, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 14, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, May 12, 2002
- Flood in Alaska, May 12 to 14, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, May 12 to 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, May 12 to 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, May 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: 5294072, 5294073.