Name: Hail in North Dakota, August 26, 2002
Start: 2002-08-26T15:07
End: 2002-08-26T15:07
Location: North Dakota

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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 26, 1:45 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 1:45 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
245 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

A CONCERN FOR THE SHORT RANGE IS THE CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WITH LARGE HAIL TONIGHT. AN INVERTED SURFACE TROUGH WILL CONTINUE OVER
THE REGION TONIGHT WITH WARM ADVECTION LIFT IN LOWER LAYERS. LOW
PRESSURE ALOFT CENTERED IN SOUTHWEST SASKATCHEWAN WILL RESULT IN
SOUTHWEST FLOW PLUS A SHORT WAVE ENTERING SOUTH CENTRAL ND THIS
EVENING. ALSO...THE RESULTANT SHEAR SUGGESTS CHANCE OF ORGANIZED
CONVECTION.

A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY AS THE SURFACE TROUGH
PERSISTS WITH WEAKENING FLOW ALOFT. THEN...A DRY RESPITE IS LIKELY
WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS THE UPPER FLOW SPLITS AND A SURFACE
HIGH BRINGS WEAK COLD ADVECTION.

FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD...THE AVN MODEL SHOWS A RETURN TO SOUTHWEST
FLOW ALOFT WITH TRAINING SHORT WAVES...PLUS INCREASING LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE. THE MRF CONTINUES THE UPPER SOUTHWEST FLOW INTO THE WEEKEND
AS A TROUGH DIGS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. THIS MOIST PATTERN MAY
FINALLY BREAK LATE MONDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH ROTATES EAST THROUGH
CANADA.

.BIS...NONE.

LM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 26, 12:22 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

122 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1150 AM    SELFRIDGE                 ND   .75 INCH HAIL

08/26/02   SIOUX                          REPORTED BY STORM

                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Aug 26, 2:50 PM CST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

350 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0310 PM    11 SW TUTTLE              ND   1 INCH HAIL

08/26/02   KIDDER                         REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE

                                          OBSERVER.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Wells

When: August 26, 3:07 PM CST
Where: Wells County, 1 mi SW of Bowdon
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 47.450, -99.583

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

More

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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: 5310216.