Hail, McIntosh
- When
- August 28, 3:54 PM CST
- Where
- McIntosh County, 15 mi SE of Wishek
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.100, -99.333
Hail in North Dakota, August 28, 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 28, 12:15 PM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 12:15 PM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERIVCE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS 115 PM CDT WED AUG 28 2002 WILL MAKE LITTLE CHANGE TO ORIGINALLY WFO BIS FORECAST. MAIN BOUNDARY (TROUGH) THIS AFTERNOON LIES FROM NORTHEAST INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND INTO SOUTH DAKOTA. WEAK LOW FORECAST TO RIDE ALONG FRONT THIS EVENING GIVING BEST CHC FOR TSRA FOR FAR SE CWFA (JMS AREA). WILL MAINTAIN POPS HOWEVER THIS EVENING FOR NEXT GROUP TO THE WEST (DIK-BIS-MOT). WILL LEAVE NW ND DRY AS HIGH PRESSURE OVER ERN MT INTO SE SASK CLOSE ENOUGH TO KEEP DRIER IN THAT AREA. WITH LIGHT WINDS OVERNIGHT...WILL THINK ABOUT FOG CHANCES IN THE MINOT-BOTTINEAU GROUP. FOR THE LATER PDS...WILL KEEP PREV FCST AS SOUTHWEST FLOW REMAINS THRU THE WEEKEND ALONG WITH DAILY CHANCES FOR THUNDER. .BIS...NONE. DTR/DK
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:52 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 28, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, August 28, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Colorado, August 28, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Colorado, August 28, 2002
- Tornado in Wyoming, August 28, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, August 28, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, August 28, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, August 28, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, August 28, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, August 28, 2002
- Hail in New Mexico, August 28, 2002
- Waterspouts in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, August 28, 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: 5310303.