Hail, Rolette
- When
- May 29, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Rolette County, Dunseith
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 48.817, -100.050
Hail in North Dakota, May 29, 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 May 29, 2:20 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:20 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 320 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2002 FCST CHALLABGE WILL BE TEMPERATURES REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. THIS EVENING...A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST FAR EASTERN PORTION OF COUNTY WARNING AREA THEN DRY WEATHER WILL END THE PRECIP THREAT TONIGHT. MODELS AGAIN LOOK REASONABLE IN FORECAST WEATHER PATTEREN. H5 RIDGE WILL BUILD INTO THE CENTRAL US RESULTING IN MILD TEMPERATURES AND DRY AIR THROUGH THE WEEK. BUILDING RIDGE WILL INITIALLY RESULT IN WINDY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY AS SFC HIGH BUILDS WEST OF STATE WHILE SURFACE LOW EXITS THE REGION. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL BE THE RULE THURSDAY. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY LOOK PLEASANTLY MILD AND DRY. A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY...THEN SCATTERED SHOWERS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .BIS...NONE. WA
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 29, 1:59 PM CST, 5 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
259 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0250 PM DUNSEITH ND 1 INCH HAIL
05/29/02 ROLETTE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.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
- Blizzard in Washington, May 29, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, May 29 to 30, 2002
- Hail in Texas, May 29, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 29, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, May 29, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 29, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 29, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Texas, May 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 29, 2002
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, May 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: 5296423.