Name: Hail in Wisconsin, April 18, 2002
Start: 2002-04-18T16:35
End: 2002-04-18T16:35
Location: Wisconsin

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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 18, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
315 PM CDT THU APR 18 2002

CURRENT LOW PRESSURE IS OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.  THE ASSOCIATED
WARM FRONT IS JUST SOUTH OF THE WISCONSIN COUNTIES...NIPPING AT
PRICE COUNTY.  THE H85 JET CORE IS OVER EASTERN WISCONSIN...FEEDING
THE STORMS IN THAT REGION.  STILL A SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL IN OUR
WI COUNTIES WITH THE INSTABILITY AND SHEAR...BUT EXPECT MOST WEATHER
TO BE EAST.  STILL LOOKING FOR HAIL AS THE PRIMARY THREAT...ALTHOUGH
SOME STRONG WINDS COULD PUNCH THROUGH THE WEAK STABLE LAYER NEAR THE
SURFACE.  STILL KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS SITUATION.

MEANWHILE...SOME LIGHT RAIN/SNOW OVER CENTRAL/EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...ASSOCIATED WITH AN H5 VORT...IS MOVING EASTWARD.
ETA/NGM BRING THE H5 VORT CENTER TO THE NORTHEAST TIP OF MN BY 12Z.
AVN IS FASTER...EXTENDING EAST INTO CANADA...WHICH IS A BIT TOO FAST.
WITH THE ETA/NGM...PRECIP WILL PRIMARILY BE OVER THE BORDERLAND.
ETA BUFR DATA INDICATES THE SWITCH OVER TO A SNOW PROFILE BY 9 PM
TONIGHT.  WILL MENTION SWITCH TO WET SNOW WITH UNDER AN INCH
ACCUMULATION ALONG THE BORDERLAND.

FRIDAY WILL SEE STIFF NORTHERLY WINDS AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS.
CLOUDS WILL DISSIPATE AS DRYER AIR MASS ADVECTS IN FRIDAY.  WILL
LEAVE OUT MENTION OF PRECIP FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY.

GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOKED GOOD IN GENERAL.  MAV NUMBERS WERE HIGHER THAN
FWC ON SATURDAY.  WENT WITH A BLEND ON THIS DAY.

.DLH...NONE.

KFM

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 168 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:35 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Price

When: April 18, 4:35 PM CST
Where: Price County, Park Falls
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.933, -90.450

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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Every storm in Wisconsin in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Wisconsin, April 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: 5296696.