4 tornado, 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 29, 8:50 AM CST, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 950 AM CDT WED MAY 29 2002 FORECAST CHALLENGE CONCERNS MAINLY TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION CHANCES. VISIBLE LOOP/HAND ANALYSIS INDICATING MAIN BOUNDARY OVER CENTRAL ND WITH NICE CURL ASSOCIATED WITH ADVANCING MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE/VORTICITY MAXIMA. THIS FEATURE TO TRACK ALONG INTERNATIONAL BORDER AREA AND AFFECT REGION THIS AFTERNOON/EVENINIG. FROM 850MB UA ANALYSIS MOISTURE SOMEWHAT LIMITED HOWEVER SFC DEWPOINTS REACHING 60 OVER SOUTHERN VALLEY AND WITH PLENTY OF UPPER SUPPORT WITH WAVE AND APPROACHING NOSE OF UPPER JET MID BASED THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLE SEVERE... LOOKS TO BE A GOOD CALL. KMVX-88D AND LIGHTNING DISPLAY INDICATING MAINLY SHRA PUSHING INTO WESTERN COUNTIES. TEMPS ABOUT ON SCHEDULE AND WITH PARTIAL SOLAR CURRENT FCST RANGES LOOK REASONABLE. WILL TAKE A LAST LOOK AT CLOUD TRENDS/TEMPERATURES AND WIND FIELD HOWEVER NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES PLANNED. .FGF...NONE. VOELKER
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS, ND
847 AM CDT WED MAY 29 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM MOOREHEAD MN FLOOD
05/29/02 CLAY STREET FLOODING ACROSS
FARGO-MOOREHEAD AREA. WATER
UP TO FLOORBOARDS OF CARS. CARS.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS, ND
920 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002
...CORRECTED LOCATION OF TORNADO REPORT...
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0645 PM 7 S FOXHOME MN 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 WILKIN
0710 PM 4 W WESTERN MN 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 OTTER TAIL
0729 PM NEAR NASHUA MN TORNADO
05/28/02 WILKIN TORNADO REPORTED ON GROUND GROUND NORTH
EAST OF INTERSECTION OF
HWY 55 AND HWY 9.
0800 PM 4 N NORCROSS MN .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 GRANT
0830 PM 5 E NORCROSS MN .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 GRANTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS, ND
857 AM CDT WED MAY 29 2002
...FINAL STORM REPORTS...
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0429 PM MOOREHEAD MN 84 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
05/28/02 CLAY REPORTED BY MN DOT RWIS
SITE
0430 PM MOOREHEAD MN WIND DAMAGE
05/28/02 CLAY NUMEROUS RESIDENTIAL
FENCES BLOWN DOWN AND
GARAGE DOORS BLOWN IN.
0430 PM MOOREHEAD MN FLOOD
05/28/02 CLAY STREET FLOODING ACROSS
FARGO-MOOREHEAD AREA. WATER
UP TO FLOORBOARDS OF CARS.
0450 PM 1 W SABIN MN .88 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 CLAY
0645 PM 7 S FOXHOME MN 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 WILKIN
0710 PM 4 W WESTERN MN 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 OTTER TAIL
0718 PM 1 N NASHUA MN TORNADO
05/28/02 WILKIN TORNADO REPORTED ON GROUND
NORTH OF NASHUA.
0729 PM NASHUA MN TORNADO
05/28/02 WILKIN TORNADO REPORTED ON GROUND
EAST OF INTERSECTION OF HWY
55 AND HWY 9.
0800 PM 4 N NORCROSS MN .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 GRANT
0830 PM 5 E NORCROSS MN .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 GRANT
1020 PM PLUMMER MN 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/28/02 RED LAKEThe Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:34 UTC.
4 tornado, 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The path length was not continuous and no damage was reported.
A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
The tornado was reported 3 miles west of highway 89.
A tree was blown down onto a shed.
Dime sized hail fell at Norris Camp.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 2002Warnings in Minnesota, May 2002
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: 5294187, 5294188, 5294189, 5294190, 5294191, 5294192, 5294193, 5294194, 5294195.