Hail, Pembina
- When
- July 1, 9:45 AM CST
- Where
- Pembina County, Joliette
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.817, -97.217
Hail in North Dakota, July 1, 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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 1, 9:30 AM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 9:30 AM CST, 15 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1030 AM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 A BROAD FLAT TROUGH WAS ALONG THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS A SHORT WAVE NEAR LAKE YWG AND ANOTHER OVER FAR SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN. POCKET OF HIGH THETA-E AIR WAS ACROSS EASTERN SD THIS MORNING AND WILL SHIFT INTO WEST CENTAL MN THIS AFTERNOON. SURFACE LOW WAS OVER NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON. SURFACE DEWPOINTS HAVE JUMPED INTO THE UPPER 60S IN SOUTHEAST ND ALREADY. STRONG SURFACE MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE WAS CENTERED OVER JMS. CONVERGENCE MAXIMUM APPEARS TO STAY NORTH OF SURFACE LOW. HOWEVER 88D HAS STRONG STORMS FARTHER N ALONG THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER. ETA MODEL SOUNDING AT ABR AND BIS MATCHES REASONABLY WELL WITH THE MORNING OBSERVED. HOWEVER THE OBSERVED SOUNDING AT GGW WAS MUCH DRIER AROUND 700 MB THAN WHAT THE ETA HAD FORECAST. KMVX 88D VAD WIND SHOWING GOOD INFLOW THIS MORNING WITH SE WIND AT 30 KNOTS. KBIS VAD WIND HAD A BACKING PROFILE. GOING FORECAST LOOKS REASONABLE. WILL CHECK ZONES. .FGF...NONE HOPPES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 5:43 AM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-011400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 643 AM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FOR EXTREME EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SYNOPSIS... LOW PRESSURE OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA WILL MOVE EAST AND BE LOCATED NEAR FARGO BY MID AFTERNOON...WITH A WARM FRONT EAST FROM THE LOW ACROSS NORTHERN MINNESOTA. THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BE NEAR BEMIDJI BY EARLY EVENING. WARM AND MOIST AIR WILL RAPIDLY RETURN NORTH AHEAD OF THIS LOW INTO FAR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE WARM FRONT AND AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CAUSING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE COVERAGE OF SEVERE WEATHER IS UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME AS WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE MID LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE MAY INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. AREA OF CONCERN... LOCATIONS FROM THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND POINTS EAST THROUGH NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. TIME... 2 PM UNTIL 8 PM. TYPE OF HAZARD... DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE THREAT FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES DOES EXIST ESPECIALLY NEAR THE LOW AND WARM FRONT. RIDDLE NNNN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:45 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
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 1 to 4, 2002
- Heat in Illinois, July 1 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Texas, July 1 to 6, 2002
- Heat in Michigan, July 1 to 4, 2002
- Heat in Maryland, July 1 to 4, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, July 1, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, July 1, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, July 1 to 2, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 1, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, July 1 to 4, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, July 1 to 17, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, July 1 to 10, 2002
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, July 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: 5303373.