Hail, Lincoln
- When
- May 5, 6:37 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County, Lake Benton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.250, -96.300
Hail in Minnesota, May 5, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 5, 2:20 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 2:20 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 320 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002 FIRST SFC TROF/UPR WAVE SETTING OFF SCT TSTMS ERN CWA EARLY TNGT... AS MAIN WAVE APPROACHES FM W HANGING UP FNTL BOUNDARY FM SW TO NE IN CWA THIS EVE. SFC LOW PRES DVLPG FM WY INTO NE WILL INCR CONVERGENCE ALG BOUNDARY AND CAUSE MORE SCT TSTMS TO DVLP FM SW TO NE IN CWA LATER IN EVE. THUS WILL KEEP PREV FCST SCT TSTMS WITH PSBL SVR... MAINLY S AND E IN CWA THIS EVE. BOUNDARY MOVES SE OF AREA FLWD BY NWLY FLW OF MILD AIR IN CWA FOR MON...THUS A NICE DAY BUT MAYBE RATHER BREEZY WITH MIXING. GOOD FRONTOGENESIS FM W TO E IN CWA MON NGT INTO TUE...AND AS MORE UPR LVL ENERGY MOVES IN FM SW...MORE WDSPRD SHWRS AND PSBL EMBEDDED TSTMS SHOULD AFFECT MOST OF CWA FM LATE MON NGT THRU AT LEAST WED MRNG. AVN A LIT ON THE FAST SIDE... WITH UKMET/CANADIAN SPCTRL SLOWER AND BTR. SIMILAR SYS WILL MOVE E OVR CWA FOR LATE FRI INTO SUN...WITH A WARMUP THEREAFTER. .FSD...NONE RYRHOLM
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:35 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 5, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, May 5 to 6, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 5, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, May 5, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 5, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, May 5 to 7, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 5 to 6, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 5, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 5, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 5, 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: 5293807.