Hail in North Dakota, September 1, 2002

Name: Hail in North Dakota, September 1, 2002
Start: 2002-09-01T01:00
End: 2002-09-01T01:00
Location: North Dakota

September 1, 2002 · NWS FGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 7:45 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 7:45 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
845 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 2002

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONFINED SO FAR TO EXTREME NORTHERN RED
RIVER VALLEY BUT TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS ARE APPROACHING ON SEVERAL
FRONTS AT WEST/SOUTHWEST SIDE OF CWA. BELIEVE THE AVN WAS MOST
CORRECT IN PLACEMENT OF HEAVIEST RAIN TONIGHT BUT FLOOD WATCH IN
EFFECT THROUGHOUT REGION IS STILL VALID WITH SATURATED SOILS IN
ABUNDANCE. WILL LEAVE ZONES BASICALLY ALONE BUT WILL ADD EMPHASIS
ON FLOOD POTENTIAL AS NONE WAS INCLUDED EARLIER.

.FGF...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ENTIRE CWA TONIGHT.
       SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL MIDNIGHT NORTH HALF EXCEPT LAKE
       OF THE WOODS AND BELTRAMI COUNTIES.
GV

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 145 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Richland

When: September 1, 1:00 AM CST
Where: Richland County, 10 mi W of Wahpeton
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 46.267, -96.817

The hail was reported along Interstate 29.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Dakota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in North Dakota, September 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: 5318025.