Hail in Minnesota, May 28, 2002

Name: Hail in Minnesota, May 28, 2002
Start: 2002-05-28T01:15
End: 2002-05-28T01:20
Location: Minnesota

May 28, 2002 · NWS MPX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 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 May 27, 8:05 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 8:05 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
905 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002

CLUSTER OF EVENING CONVECTION HAS JUST ABOUT PUSHED OUT OF FAR
SOUTHERN CWA AND DONT EXPECT REDEVELOPMENT IN NEAR TERM. STILL HINT
OF NARROW OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PUSHING SLOWLY N TOWARD MSP. WILL SEE IF
THIS WILL HAVE AFFECT ON POTENTIAL ACTIVITY TOMORROW. ACTIVE COMPLEX
TO OUR SW MOVING EAST INTO AREA OF HIGH INSTABILITY. THICKNESS WILL
TEND TO CARRY MOST OF THIS TO SE. HOWEVER..RETURNING WARM ADVECTION
MAY GENERATE SOME THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN SD LATER ON AND THEN
MOVE INTO SW MN. CURRENT FORECAST SEEMS TO HAVE THIS SCENARIO SO
LITTLE CHANGE IN POPS. TEMPS MAY NOT DROP MUCH OVER SW WITH CLOUDS
MOVING IN.

.MSP...NONE
RICHARDSON

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Watonwan

When: May 28, 1:15 AM CST to 1:20 AM CST
Where: Watonwan County, Madelia
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.050, -94.417

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Minnesota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5298683.