North Dakota, 2002

Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, June 22, 2002

June 22, 2002 · NWS FGF · 25 events in 7 counties and zones

18 hail, 7 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 7 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$1,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
25

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 Jun 22, 12:45 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 12:45 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
145 AM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002

...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE CONTINUES TO FOCUS ON IMPENDING
CONVECTIVE AND HEAVY RAIN THREAT AND RESULTANT HEADLINES...

.CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW...
06Z MSAS ANALYSIS DEPICTED BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE FROM SOUTHEAST
MONTANA TO WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA WITH ASSOCIATED WARM FRONT DRAPED
OVER CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. LATEST IR SATELLITE IMAGERY AND RADAR
MOSAIC INDICATED CONVECTIVE COMPLEX DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN MONTANA
OCCURRING IN THE VICINITY OF STRONG MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE AND
EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW INFLUX. KMVX VAD WIND PROFILE INDICATED 30
KTS JUST OFF THE SURFACE WITH GOOD VEERING OF WINDS IN THE LOWER
GATES.

.FORECAST DETAILS...
MODELS CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE PERIODIC PIECES OF SHORTWAVE ENERGY
I.E. RIDGE RIDERS EJECTING NORTHEAST OUT OF PARENT WESTERN MEAN
UPPER LEVEL TROUGH INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS VICINITY DURING THE
NEXT 48 TO 60 HOURS. IN LAYMENS TERMS EXPECT PERIODIC CONVECTIVE
(MCVS) ESPECIALLY NOCTURNAL IN NATURE TO WORK EAST ACROSS THE
NORTHERN PLAINS INTO SUNDAY. FEATURES WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO
PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS AS MOISTURE LADEN ACTIVE 850MB LOW LEVEL
JET INFLUX FLOWS PERPENDICULAR TO AFOREMENTIONED WARM FRONT
BOUNDARY. BASED ON ABOVE WILL CONTINUE FLOOD WATCH FOR ENTIRE CWA.
IN ADDITION GOOD THERMO AND UPPER LEVEL DYNAMIC SUPPORT SUGGESTS
SOME STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE WITH BEST CHANCES FOR
ISOLATED TORNADOS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY. SEE
SWODY1 FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

.FGF...FLOOD WATCH ENTIRE FA THROUGH SUNDAY.

BERG

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Event by event

18 hail, 7 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Benson

When
June 22, 4:30 AM CST
Where
Benson County, 12 mi NW of Warwick
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
47.967, -98.867

Hail, Ramsey

When
June 22, 4:40 AM CST
Where
Ramsey County, 8 mi SE of Devils Lake
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.017, -98.733

Hail, Ramsey

When
June 22, 5:25 AM CST
Where
Ramsey County, 9 mi E of Devils Lake
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.100, -98.650

Hail, Towner

When
June 22, 5:30 AM CST
Where
Towner County, 7 mi S of Cando
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.383, -99.200

Hail, Benson

When
June 22, 5:35 AM CST
Where
Benson County, 8 mi NE of Leeds
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.367, -99.317

Hail, Walsh

When
June 22, 5:45 AM CST
Where
Walsh County, Lankin
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.317, -97.917

Flash Flood, Walsh

When
June 22, 5:45 AM CST to 7:45 AM CST
Where
Walsh County, Lankin
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.370, -97.721 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Basement flooding was reported.

Hail, Nelson

When
June 22, 5:50 AM CST
Where
Nelson County, 10 mi N of Lakota
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.183, -98.350

Hail, Nelson

When
June 22, 6:00 AM CST
Where
Nelson County, Lakota
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.033, -98.350

Hail, Walsh

When
June 22, 6:30 AM CST
Where
Walsh County, 2 mi SW of Lankin
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.300, -97.950

Hail, Nelson

When
June 22, 6:35 AM CST
Where
Nelson County, 6 mi N of Michigan City
Measured
1.5 in hail
Property damage
$1,000
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.100, -98.117

Hail punched 12 holes in a fiberglass porch roof.

Flash Flood, Benson

When
June 22, 7:00 AM CST to 9:00 AM CST
Where
Benson County, 1 mi NE of Leeds
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.069, -99.366 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Roads and fields were flooded.

Hail, Nelson

When
June 22, 7:05 AM CST
Where
Nelson County, Dahlen
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.150, -97.933

Hail, Pembina

When
June 22, 7:15 AM CST
Where
Pembina County, 5 mi N of Drayton
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.633, -97.167

Hail, Pembina

When
June 22, 7:20 AM CST
Where
Pembina County, Drayton
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.567, -97.167

Flash Flood, Towner

When
June 22, 7:45 AM CST to 9:45 AM CST
Where
Towner County, Maza
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.686, -99.246 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Water backed up into yards and fields. Basement flooding was also reported.

Flash Flood, Ramsey

When
June 22, 7:45 AM CST to 9:45 AM CST
Where
Ramsey County, 5 mi N of Churchs Ferry
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.269, -98.720 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Yards, fields, and basements were flooded.

Hail, Nelson

When
June 22, 8:00 AM CST
Where
Nelson County, 1 mi NW of Tolna
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
47.850, -98.450

Hail, Walsh

When
June 22, 8:10 AM CST
Where
Walsh County, Pisek
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.317, -97.700

Hail, Walsh

When
June 22, 8:30 AM CST
Where
Walsh County, 1 mi E of Pisek
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.317, -97.683

Flash Flood, Walsh

When
June 22, 9:00 AM CST to 11:00 AM CST
Where
Walsh County, Fordville
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.370, -97.721 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Water was flowing across highway 32.

Hail, Nelson

When
June 22, 9:00 AM CST
Where
Nelson County, 1 mi N of Petersburg
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.033, -98.000

Flash Flood, Nelson

When
June 22, 1:00 PM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where
Nelson County, 6 mi N of Pekin
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
47.922, -98.192 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Water was reported to be crossing highway 1.

Flash Flood, Sargent

When
June 22, 10:00 PM CST to 11:59 PM CST
Where
Sargent County, 11 mi W of Gwinner
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
46.108, -97.631 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Highway 13 was under water.

Hail, Sargent

When
June 22, 10:15 PM CST
Where
Sargent County, 1 mi NE of Gwinner
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
46.250, -97.633

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Flash Flood
Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

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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: 5301046, 5301120, 5301121, 5301122, 5301123, 5301124, 5301125, 5301126, 5301127, 5301128, 5301129, 5301130, 5301131, 5301132, 5301133, 5301142, 5301143, 5301134, 5301135, 5301136, 5301137, 5301138, 5301139, 5301140, 5301141.