1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Apr 23, 7:50 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 850 PM CDT TUE APR 23 2002 FORECAST CHALLENGES MANY HOWEVER MAIN CONCERN IS ONGOING WINTER STORM HEADLINES. CONVECTION WITH ISOLD SVR CONTINUES TO FIRE AHEAD OF STRONG COLD FRONT/SFC LOW ORIENTED FROM NORTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY TO EAST OF JMS. FARTHER WEST BAND OF -RA WORKING ACROSS CENTRAL ND. INITIAL WAVE FROM WATER VAPOR LIFTING NORTHEAST WITH SECONDARY SHORT WAVE PUSHING INTO NW ND. CONCERN IS WHAT TO DO WITH WATCH WHICH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT...18Z MESO ETA...18Z AVN AND LATEST RUC ARE ALL FOCUSING MAIN PRECIPITATION EVENT ALONG 850MB BAROCLINIC ZONE ALONG AND AHEAD OF COLD FRONT LIFTING NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT. AT THIS POINT IN TIME IT SEEMS TO BE THE CASE WITH WHAT IS GOING ON HERE AND UPSTREAM. ALL OF THESE MODELS SO FAR DOING A GOOD JOB AS 850MB ZERO LINE JUST ENTERING THE NW CORNER OF ND FROM RUC ANALYSIS. BASED ON POSIT OF 850MB TEMPS AND CRITICAL THICKNESS MAIN PCPN SHIELD EXITS FA BEFORE VALUES DROP ENOUGH FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL. BEST AREA FOR ANY ACCUMULATIONS LOOKS TO BE OVER FAR NORTHEAST COUNTIES WHERE AN INCH OR TWO MAY BE POSSIBLE. ELSEWHERE WITH SFC TEMPERATURES STILL ABOVE FREEZING INTO SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN FEEL SNOWFALL WILL NOT BE INTENSE ENOUGH FOR SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS. AS A RESULT BASED ON AVAILABLE INFO HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO DROP WATCH. WILL HOWEVER NEED TO ISSUE WIND ADVISORY FOR LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY BASED ON ADIABATIC LAYER AND EVOLVING UNIDIRECTIONAL FLOW WITH 30 TO 40KTS FROM MESO-ETA SOUNDING AND STRONG COLD ADVECTION/ISENTROPIC DESCENT. .FGF...WINTER STORM WATCH CANCELLED. WIND ADVISORY ENTIRE FORECAST AREA LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. VOELKER
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS, ND
838 PM CDT TUE APR 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM 6 N CROOKSTON MN .75 INCH HAIL
04/23/02 POLK
0824 PM DOROTHY MN 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/23/02 RED LAKE
BRAMERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS, ND
1006 PM CDT TUE APR 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1001 PM NEWFOLDEN MN .75 INCH HAIL
04/23/02 MARSHALL
BRAMERThe Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:42 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a house southeast of Finley, knocking out power and phone service to the house. The strike also ruptured a propane line near the home shooting flames up into the air. The lightning hit also left a hole in the roof.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, April 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: 5285583.