Name: Hail in North Dakota, June 22, 2002
Start: 2002-06-22T18:45
End: 2002-06-22T18:45
Location: North Dakota

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 Jun 22, 12:30 PM CST, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 12:30 PM CST, 6 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
130 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002

500 MB PROG INDICATES THAT MID/UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL SLOWLY MOVE FROM
UTAH TO NE NORTH DAKOTA BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE APPROACH AND
PASSAGE OF THIS FEATURE WILL BRING LARGE SCALE ASCENT TO A MOIST AND
UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE FOR THE NEXT 48 HOURS.

THIS EVENING WILL BRING A H5 VORT MAX INTO THE WEST...WITH A WARM
FRONT IN NORTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA. PROG SOUNDINGS INDICATE SOME CAPPING
ABOVE THE WARM FRONTAL INVERSION  EARLY TODAY AND LATE
TONIGHT...WITH A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR CONVECTION AROUND 00Z.
THUS IT LOOKS LIKE A REPEAT OF LAST NIGHT. AGAIN THE NORTHERN HALF OF
THE STATE WILL STAND THE BETTER CHANCE OF ACTIVITY BECAUSE OF THE
CAPPING. I WILL GO WITH HIGH POPS...A CHANCE OF SEVERE...AND BECAUSE OF
THE WARM FRONTAL POSITION I WILL ADD MENTION OF HEAVY RAIN. ISENTROPIC
ANALYSIS INDICATES THE BIG NORTHWARD LIFT WILL OCCUR AFTER 9 PM CDT
TONIGHT...SO THE SPC FORECAST OF A LATE NIGHT MCS LOOKS GOOD.

SUNDAY EVENING AND NIGHT WILL BRING SOME SURFACE CONVERGENCE AS AN
INVERTED TROUGH SLIDES ACROSS THE WEST AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE
STATE...WITH THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM DIRECTLY OVER THE STATE. SO IT
LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS.

MONDAY WILL BRING IMPROVING WEATHER WITH THE APPROACH OF A MID LEVEL
H5 RIDGE.

.BIS...NONE.
RSL

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:21 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

621 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0610 AM    4 S MINOT                 ND   .75 INCH HAIL

06/22/02   WARD                           REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0604 PM    ELLENDALE                 ND   .88 INCH HAIL

06/22/02   DICKEY                         REPORTED BY LAW

                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:47 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Dickey

When: June 22, 6:45 PM CST
Where: Dickey County, Ellendale
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 46.000, -98.517

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

More

Every storm in North Dakota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in North Dakota, June 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: 5303064.