Hail, Burnett
- When
- April 18, 1:30 AM CST
- Where
- Burnett County, Grantsburg
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.783, -92.683
Hail in Wisconsin, April 18, 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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 18, 1:30 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 1:30 AM CST, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 230 AM CDT THU APR 18 2002 TSTMS CURRENTLY FIRING OVR SRN HALF OF MN AND WRN WI VCNTY WFNT. AMS NOT TERRIBLY UNSTABLE...BUT LIFT BEING SUPPLIED BY 65KT 850 MB JET OVERRUNING WFNT. CELLS WILL ENTER EVEN MORE STABLE AIR AS THEY APPROACH OUR CWA...SO DO NOT EXPECT SVR CRITERIA...BUT IT WILL BE CLOSE. WILL LEAVE TSTMS IN 1ST PD AS SFC LOW CONTS ITS WAY TO ENE DURING THE DAY. OUR WI CWA WILL HAVE BEST CHC OF TSTMS AS LI/S DIP CLOSE TO -6 AND CAPES INCRS TO AROUND 1500 J/KG. SEE SWODY1 FOR MORE DETAILS. CAA BEGINS LATE TDA AS CFNT PUSHES THRU FROM NW...BUT 500 MB S/WV AND VORT MAX MOVG NE ACRS NRN MN WILL KEEP CHCS OF SHRA ALIVE THU 2ND PD AS WELL. TEMPS AND THKNS VALUES LOWER SUFFICIENTLY TO LEAVE MENTION OF SHSN IN FCST. CAA AND DRYING CONT INTO FRI AS SFC HIGH SETTLES SWD...BUT AVN MAINTAINS SOME MINIMAL QPF OVR AREA AND UPR LVL TROF CONTS ITS APPROACH...SO WILL RETAIN SLGT POPS ON FRI. COOLING TREND BEHIND CFNT PICKED UP NICELY BY MOS...AND ONLY SMALL ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED TO CURRENT ZFP. .DLH...NONE. ERF
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:31 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
- High Wind in Nebraska, April 18, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Wisconsin, April 18 to 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 18, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, April 18, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Maryland, April 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, April 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, April 18, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Virginia, April 18, 2002
- High Wind in Nebraska, April 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 18, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, April 18 to 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5295942.