3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 25, 2:30 PM CST, 6 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 330 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 FORECAST CONCERN NEAR TERM...CONVECTION INITIATION/FLOODING POTENTIAL. LINE OF STORMS DEVELOPING ALONG DEVELOPING COLD FRONT OVER THE EASTERN DAKOTAS. SVR WATCH ALREADY IN PLACE. OTHERWISE...OUTFLOW BOUNDARY OVER SOUTHEAST MN/SOUTHWEST WI BEGINNING TO FIRE. BELIEVE MAIN SHOW WILL BE UPPER TROF MOVING INTO WESTERN MN WITH COLD FRONT SWEEPING TO CENTRAL MN AROUND 06Z...THEN SAGGING OUT OF SOUTHERN MN BY 12Z WED. WITH GROUND SATURATED OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL MN AND MOSAIC FFG INDICATING 1 HR VALUES AROUND .60 INCH AND 3 HR TOTALS AROUND 1 INCH...WILL LIKELY SEE SOME RAPID RUNOFF IF THESE AREAS SEE THUNDERSTORMS. ISSUED A FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS AREA FOR TONIGHT. DRIER CONDITIONS MOVE IN WED-THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. TEMPERATURES NOT COOLING ALL THAT MUCH...WITH READINGS MOVING BACK INTO THE 90S BY THE WEEKEND...AND UPPER RIDE OVER THE AREA. .MSP...FLOOD WATCH MUCH OF CENTRAL MN....SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR WILLMAR TO ANOKA...AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEW ULM TO RED WING. DWE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
622 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM 12 S MARIETTA MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02 LAC QUI PARLE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0555 PM 10 N MORA MN .88 INCH HAIL
06/25/02 KANABEC EVENT DURATION 10
MINUTES. REPORTED BY
PUBLIC.
0612 PM GILMAN MN 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02 BENTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.MNZ054-056-064>067-073>075-082-083-091-092-260315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 945 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 470 IS CANCELLED... THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ARE NO LONGER SEVERE. THUS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 470 WHICH WAS TO BE IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. BAP
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:06 UTC.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Three to four inches fell quickly, producing street flooding in Bloomer, water over Highways 27 and 64 in Cornell, and a road washout in the town of Birch Creek. Two mudslides also occurred.
Nearly four inches of rain fell in less than two hours. Street flooding was the result, including water to three feet on Stokie Parkway.
Nearly four inches of rain in less than two hours caused ditches and creeks to overflow, some onto township roads.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, June 2002
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: 5302643, 5302644, 5302645.