Hail, Mercer
- When
- August 16, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Mercer County, Beulah
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 47.267, -101.783
Hail in North Dakota, August 16, 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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 16, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
200 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
STRONG MID LEVEL TROUGH WILL SWING RAPIDLY THROUGH OUR FORECAST
AREA. AT THE SURFACE A LOW WILL MOVE TO NEAR BISMARCK AT 00Z AND
THEN RAPIDLY TO GFK BY 06Z. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL FOLLOW THE LOW
WITH ENVIRONMENTAL WINDS TO 45 MPH. ALSO...STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE...WILL RIDE AHEAD OF THE FRONT LATER
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
BECAUSE THE SYSTEM IS MOVING SO RAPIDLY WINDS WILL LIKELY BE
SUBSIDING IN THE WEST ALREADY SATURDAY. I WILL CONTINUE THE CURRENT
WINDS ADVISORIES AS THE NEW MODEL RUNS SUPPORT THEM.
A WEAK SHORT WAVE MAY BRING A FEW AFTERNOON AND EVENING
THUNDERSHOWERS TO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE STATE SUNDAY.
.BIS...WIND ADVISORY WEST......TONIGHT...............ISN..DIK..HEI
CENTRAL..TONIGHT AND SATURDAY..MOT..BIS..JMS
RSLIn the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 16, 4:02 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
502 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0429 PM BEACH ND 68 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/02 GOLDEN VALLEY REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
0458 PM GRASSY BUTTE ND .88 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 MCKENZIE REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.Local storm report, Aug 16, 4:59 PM CST, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
559 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PM MEDORA ND 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/02 BILLINGS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0528 PM BOWMAN ARPT ND 61 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/02 BOWMAN REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0530 PM BELFIELD ND 65 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/02 STARK REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0553 PM HALLIDAY ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 DUNN REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.Local storm report, Aug 16, 5:18 PM CST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
618 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0550 PM HALLIDAY ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 DUNN REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Aug 16, 5:20 PM CST, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
620 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 PM HEBRON ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 MORTON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:21 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
- High Wind in Washington, August 16, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, August 16, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, August 16 to 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16 to 17, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, August 16, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in New York, August 16, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 16, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, August 16, 2002
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 16, 2002
- Wildfire in Washington, August 16 to 20, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 16, 2002
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, August 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: 5310427.