Hail in North Dakota, July 4, 2002

Name: Hail in North Dakota, July 4, 2002
Start: 2002-07-04T16:43
End: 2002-07-04T16:43
Location: North Dakota

July 4, 2002 · NWS BIS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 Jul 4, 2:00 AM CST, 14 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:00 AM CST, 14 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
300 AM CDT THU JUL 4 2002

CURRENTLY...MCS TRACKING EAST OVER WEST CENTRAL ND WITH ONLY HEAVY
RAINFALL AND PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED SO FAR. CONVECTION SHOULD END THIS
MORNING THEN REDEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOON IN THE VICINITY OF WEAK
TROUGH AND SHORT WAVE ENERGY CUTS THROUGH THE REGION...APPEARS
BEST CHANCE WILL BE SOUTH AND EAST CENTRAL CWA. MAIN PROBLEM WILL
BE RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND RFD TODAY.

MODEL TREND IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT. SOUTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES THROUGH
FRIDAY WITH RIPPLES MOVING THROUGH UPPER FLOW. A COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVES
INTO WESTERN ND FRIDAY EVENING THEN SLOWLY EAST OVERNIGHT. GOOD NVA
ON BACK SIDE AS SURFACE HIGH BUILDS OVER EASTERN MT AND WESTERN ND.

THROUGH THE WEEKEND BROAD WARM H5 RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE REGION
WITH 591-594 HEIGHTS. EXTENDED LOOKS GOOD.

.BIS...NONE.
RGT

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:41 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hettinger

When: July 4, 4:43 PM CST
Where: Hettinger County, Regent
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 46.417, -102.550

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Dakota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5304267.