Hail, Adams
- When
- July 4, 12:50 AM CST
- Where
- Adams County, 14 mi N of Hettinger
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.200, -102.633
Rainfall from the storm totaled 2.25 inches.
Hail in North Dakota, July 4, 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 Jul 3, 2:40 PM CST, 10 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:40 PM CST, 10 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 340 PM CDT WED JUL 3 2002 CURRENT TREND CONTINES TO SLOW THE MOVEMENT OF TEH SURFACE TROUGH IN MONTANA AND SLOWLY BRING THE COLD FRONT INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY NIGHT AND THROUGH THE REGION BY SATURDAY MORNING. MAIN CONCERN FOR LIMITING THE EXTENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE MID LEVEL WARM AIR OVER SOUTHERN ND. FOR TONIGHT...ACCEPT THE ETA SOLUTION IN KEEPING THE MAIN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST LATE TONIGHT AND WILL MENTION DAMAGING WINDS. ON THURSDAY...EXPECT DYING MCS TYPE SYSTEM OVER THE NORTH IN THE MORNING THEN MORE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY EVENING. SLOWLY MOVING COLD FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...WITH BETTER CHANCE NORTH. BY SATURDAY...HIGHS PRESSURE WILL CLEAR THE REGION OF THE CHANCE FOR RAIN. DRY WEATHER WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS 500 MB RIDGE ALOFT BUILDS ACROSS THE WESTERN US. ALTHOUGH THE STATE WILL BE IN NORTHWEST FLOW WITH SOME LIMITED SHORTWAVE ENERGY DURING THIS PERIOD...WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY. .BIS...NONE. WAA
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 157 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:49 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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Vermont, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Florida, July 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Georgia, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 4, 2002
- Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 4, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 4, 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: 5304187.