1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 29, 2:50 PM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 350 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 2002 FORECAST CONCERNS TODAY ARE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL AND TEMPERATURES. FOR TONIGHT...VERY WARM AIR ACROSS THE REGION NOW RECHING THE CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURE OF 105 TO 108 DEGREES. ALTHOUGH WARM AIR IS ALOFT THE MAIN THREAT TONIGHT WILL BE STRONG WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH SQUALL LINE THAT LIKELY WILL DEVELOP ALONG COLDL FRONT MOVING INTO EASTERN MONTANA. SO WILL KEEP THE MENTION OF DAMAGING WINDS IN THE ZONE FORECAST. ON SUNDAY...POST FRONTAL DRYING WILL SWEEP CLEAR SKIES INTO THE WEST AND CENTRAL WITH SOME LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS EAST. SUNDAY NIGHT WILL BE DRY CENTRAL AND EAST...BUT STRONG MID LEVEL FLOW WILL BRING SUFFICIENT DYNAMICS TO CREATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEST....SPREADING CENTRAL AND EAST MONDAY. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WILL BE DRY...THEN JULY 4TH PERIOD INTO THE WEEKEND WILL SEE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. .BIS...NONE. WA
NDZ001-009-017-300200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 701 PM CDT (601 PM MDT) SAT JUN 29 2002 AT 700 PM CDT (600 PM MDT) A OUTFLOW BOUNDARY STRETCHING FROM NEAR THE CANADIAN BORDER TO NEAR GLENDIVE MONTANA WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS AREA OF VERY STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED TO ENTER NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA BY 730 PM CDT (630 PM MDT). THIS BOUNDARY HAS PRODUCED GUSTS UP TO 72 MPH IN GLENDIVE MONTANA. THE STRONG WINDS CAN CAUSE POWER DISRUPTIONS...HAZARDS TO TRAILERS AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...AND BLOWING DUST THAT CAN REDUCE VISIBILITY SUDDENLY TO NEAR ZERO IN AREAS WHERE PLOWED FIELDS EXIST. WIND SPEEDS MAY INCREASE VERY RAPIDLY...BE PREPARED AND TAKE SHELTER. THOMSON
NDZ001-009-017-300200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 701 PM CDT (601 PM MDT) SAT JUN 29 2002 AT 700 PM CDT (600 PM MDT) AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY STRETCHING FROM NEAR THE CANADIAN BORDER TO NEAR GLENDIVE MONTANA WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS AREA OF VERY STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED TO ENTER NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA BY 730 PM CDT (630 PM MDT). THIS BOUNDARY HAS PRODUCED GUSTS UP TO 72 MPH IN GLENDIVE MONTANA. THE STRONG WINDS CAN CAUSE POWER DISRUPTIONS...HAZARDS TO TRAILERS AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...AND BLOWING DUST THAT CAN REDUCE VISIBILITY SUDDENLY TO NEAR ZERO IN AREAS WHERE PLOWED FIELDS EXIST. WIND SPEEDS MAY INCREASE VERY RAPIDLY...BE PREPARED AND TAKE SHELTER. THOMSON
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
808 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0806 PM 11 S ALEXANDER ND 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/02 MCKENZIE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
840 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM 1 W TRENTON ND 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/02 WILLIAMS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
WINDS ESTIMATED, GRAIN
BIN DESTROYED.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
854 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0850 PM STANLEY ND 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/02 MOUNTRAIL REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR. WIND GUSTS
BLEW OVER RADIO ANTENNA.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Two people were injured by flying debris at a campground.
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 historyWarnings 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: 5301947.