1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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, 7 hours 34 minutes earlier.
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
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
456 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0320 PM 2 SW NEW HRADEC ND 1 INCH HAIL
06/23/02 DUNN REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. RAINFALL .60
IN 20 MINUTE PERIOD.
0356 PM TAYLOR ND .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02 STARK REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR. RAINFALL .37
IN A 10 MINUTE PERIOD.
0447 PM HEBRON ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02 MORTON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. VERY HEAVY
RAIN REPORTED WITH THE
STORM AND 30 TO 40 MPH
WINDS.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
642 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0533 PM 10 N GLEN ULLIN ND .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02 MORTON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0607 PM 15 SE BISMARCK ND .88 INCH HAIL
06/23/02 BURLEIGH REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.
0621 PM 5 N WILTON ND FUNNEL CLOUD
06/23/02 MCLEAN REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE. FUNNEL LASTED
LESS THEN A MINUTE THEN
RETREATED BACK INTO THE
CLOUDS. STORM SPOTTER
REPORTED A WALL CLOUD
IN THE SAME VICINITY.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
708 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0705 PM 11 N WILTON ND 2.5 INCH HAIL
06/23/02 BURLEIGH REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
712 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM 11 N WILTON ND 2.75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02 BURLEIGH REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
VERY HEAVY RAIN. 1.00
INCH RECORDED PAST 30
MINUTES.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Several tree's uprooted and shingles blown off roof several homes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Dakota, 2002Warnings in North Dakota, June 2002
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: 5301934.