Damaging Wind in Minnesota, May 8, 2002

Name: Damaging Wind in Minnesota, May 8, 2002
Start: 2002-05-08T01:00
End: 2002-05-08T01:00
Location: Minnesota

May 8, 2002 · NWS MPX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, 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 7, 7:20 PM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 7:20 PM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
820 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

WV/IR IMAGERY INDICATES VORT LOBE MOVING INTO SE SD ATTM. QUITE AN
AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF THE SHORT WAVE. LOW LEVEL
THETA-E ADVECTION IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. RUC SHOWING DECREASING LOW
LEVEL STABILITY ACROSS THE CWA OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY SOUTHERN MN.
STORMS SO FAR HAVE PRODUCED MANY REPORTS OF PEA SIZE HAIL. BETTER
VILS IN THE FSD AREA HAS RESULTED IN DIME SIZE HAIL. WILL HAVE TO
KEEP A WATCH ON THE W CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AREAS TONIGHT. MADE SOME
SMALL CHANGES ON THE WORDING OF TONIGHTS FORECAST. LOWERED MINIMUM
TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES ACROSS CENTRAL AND WESTERN MN.

.MSP...NONE.

HILTBRAND

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 170 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:00 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Chippewa

When: May 8, 1:00 AM CST
Where: Chippewa County, Montevideo
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 44.950, -95.717

Tree toppled and fell on roof.

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

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: 5298676.