Hail, Golden Valley
- When
- June 8, 6:43 PM CST
- Where
- Golden Valley County, 6 mi N of Sentinel Butte
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 47.000, -103.833
Hail in North Dakota, June 8, 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 8, 1:35 PM CST, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:35 PM CST, 5 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 235 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 2002 FCST PROBLEMS THROUGH PD WL BE DEALING WITH UPR SYSTEM MOVING INTO NRN PLAINS. WL USE AVN MDL FOR SPECIFICS AS ETA/AVN START OUT SIMILAR BUT ETA IS MORE PROGRESSIVE...ESP AFT 36 HRS. SLOWEST SOLN USUALLY SEEMS TO WORK OUT IN THIS TYPE OF PATN AND AVN IS DEFINATELY THE SLOWEST. EITHER WAY WL BE DEALING WITH CONVECTION TNGT...POSSIBLY SEVERE AS LOW LVL MOISTURE BEGINNING TO RAPIDLY INC OVER SRN CWA AND S/W OVER SCNTRL MT WL PROVIDE SPARK. CONV ALREADY BEGINNING OVER ERN MT. WIND PROFILE SUGGESTS ROTATING SUPERCELLS PSBL. WITH INCG MOISTURE ON STG LOW LVL JET...POTENTIALL EXISTS FOR HEAVY RAIN AS WELL. WILL WORD PSBLY SEVERE AND HEAVY RAIN ENTIRE CWA TNGT. AVN SUGGESTS PCPN HANGING ON ACROSS NRN CWA WITH A BREAK OVER SRN CWA SUN AFTN...BEFORE NEXT S/W LIFTS THROUGH BRINGING ANOTHER GOOD CHANCE OF CONVECTION SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. COOLER TUE AND WED AS UPR LOW REMAIN IN THE VICINITY. PREV FCST MENTIONS AFTERNOON SHOWERS TUE AND WED AN THIS LOOKS GOOD...ALTHOUGH DEPENDING ON ACTUAL LOCATION OF 50H LOW...NRN CWA MAY SEE MORE THAN JUST AFTN SHOWERS. WL KEEP THU THROUGH SAT DRY WITH A WARMUP. .BIS...NONE. TWH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:34 PM CST, 4 hours 9 minutes before
NDZ001-009-017-082230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 330 PM CDT (230 PM MDT) SAT JUN 8 2002 LIGHT RAIN CONTINUES TO PUSH INTO NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA FROM EASTERN MONTANA. THE RAIN...ALTHOUGH LIGHT AT THE PRESENT...IS EXPECTE TO INTENSIFY AS THE AFTERNOON MOVES INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE RAIN IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND IS JUST ENTERING THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF REGION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 8 PM (7 PM MDT) THIS SATURDAY EVENING. PA
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:39 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
NDZ001-009-017-082230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 330 PM CDT (230 PM MDT) SAT JUN 8 2002 LIGHT RAIN CONTINUES TO PUSH INTO NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA FROM EASTERN MONTANA. THE RAIN...ALTHOUGH LIGHT AT THE PRESENT...IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AS THE AFTERNOON MOVES INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE RAIN IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND IS JUST ENTERING THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF REGION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 8 PM CDT(7 PM MDT) THIS SATURDAY EVENING. PA
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:26 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
NDZ001-009-017-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT) SAT JUN 8 2002 LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS ALONG WITH AN OCCASIONAL THUNDERSHOWER CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN RATHER LIGHT WITH AMOUNTS OF A TENTH OF AN INCH OR LESS BEING REPORTED. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. AS THE EARLY EVENING HOURS BEGIN A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE IN EASTERN MONTANA ALONG A LINE FROM FT PECK TO MILES CITY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 8 PM CDT(7 PM MDT) THIS SATURDAY EVENING. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NECESSARY. PA
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 235 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:40 UTC.
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
- Winter Storm in Montana, June 8 to 10, 2002
- Tornado in Florida, June 8, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Montana, June 8, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 8, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 8, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 8, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, June 8, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 8, 2002
- Flood in Florida, June 8, 2002
- Hail in North Dakota, June 8, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Montana, June 8 to 10, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 8, 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: 5302943.