1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 26, 1:45 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
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
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
424 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.
0407 PM 1 SW BOWDON ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 WELLS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
508 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM KENMARE ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 WARD REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
516 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM 2 N BREMEN ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 WELLS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
524 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM 10 SW FESSENDEN ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 WELLS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
621 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0615 PM 5 NW GRANO ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 RENVILLE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0615 PM DRAKE ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 MCHENRY REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
640 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0615 PM 9 NE DRAKE ND .88 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 MCHENRY REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0635 PM LANSFORD ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 BOTTINEAU REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Most crops in the Glenburn area wiped out. Majority of the homes and other buildings in the Glenburn area sustain hail damage.
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, August 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: 5310224.