Hail, McKenzie
- When
- June 23, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- McKenzie County, 11 mi S of Alexander
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 47.683, -103.650
Hail in North Dakota, June 23, 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 Jun 23, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2002 UPPER LOW OVER NORTHEAST MONTANA WILL BRING US ONE MORE DAY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE IN NORTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA PROVIDING LIFT...ALONG WITH LARGE SCALE ASCENT WITH THE UPPER SYSTEM...MAINLY IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. THE ARRIVAL OF SOME H5 RIDGING MONDAY...ALONG WITH SOME DEGREE OF LOW LEVEL DRYING WOULD SUGGEST A SUNNY DRY DAY. HOWEVER...PROG SOUNDINGS INDICATE 1000+ CAPES WITH A CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURE OF 88 DEGREES AT BISMARCK...IF WE CAN HOLD A 60 DEWPOINT (RECENT RAINS MAY INCREASE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION). ETA AND NGM MOS SUGGEST THAT BOTH CRITERIA WILL BE MET...SO I WILL INCLUDE A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE CENTRAL...BUT NOT IN THE WEST...WHERE DEWPOINTS WILL DROP INTO THE MID 50S...PRECLUDING CONVECTION. THE LONGER RANGE FEATURES MAJOR H5 RIDGING...WHICH WILL LEAD TO SOME HOT WEATHER FINALLY. WEAK RIPPLES IN THE RIDGE MAY BE ENOUGH FOR ISOLATED NOCTURNAL THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .BIS...NONE. RSL
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornadoes in South Dakota, June 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, June 23 to 24, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Maine, June 23 to 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 23 to 24, 2002
- Tornado in North Dakota, June 23, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, June 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, June 23, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Wind in St. Lawrence River, June 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, June 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, June 23, 2002
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5302016.