Hail in Minnesota, June 28, 2003

Name: Hail in Minnesota, June 28, 2003
Start: 2003-06-28T14:20
End: 2003-06-28T18:20
Location: Minnesota

June 28, 2003 · NWS FGF · 4 events in 4 counties and zones

4 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

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 4

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 Jun 28, 1:20 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 1:20 PM CST, 1 hour before

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
220 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

FORECAST CHALLENGE CONCERNS PCPN EARLY AND LATE AND TEMPERATURES.

OVERALL MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH PERIOD AND WILL UTILIZE MIX
FOR GRIDDS.

WELL DEFINED MID LEVEL CIRCULATION FROM WATER VAPOR OVER
INTERNATIONAL BORDER AREA TO CONTINUE TO DROP SE DURING REMAINDER OF
AFTERNOON INTO EVENING HOURS. CONVECTION BECOMING MORE ORGANIZED
ACROSS NORTHERN FA WITH ABOVE CIRCULATION AND WEAK BOUNDARIES. MAIN
BOUNDARY EXITING RED RIVER VALLEY. SEVERE THREAT LOOKS MINIMAL
ENOUGH TO LIMIT MENTION IN ZONES AT THIS TIME. WILL MENTION ISOLD
TSRA OVER NW FA AND POSSIBLY OVER SOUTH WITH MOST ORGANIZATION OVER
NW MN.

PCPN SHOULD EXIT FORECAST AREA BY MID EVENING LINGERING OVER FAR
NORTH LATEST AS FEATURES SHIFT EAST. DRIER AIR CONTINUES TO PUSH
EAST AND WILL HOLD MINS CLOSE TO GUIDANCE.

HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR SUNDAY. CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES RISE
INTO MIDDLE 70S SO SHOULD SE GOOD SOLAR BEFORE POPPING ANY CU
MID/LATE AFTERNOON WITH RESIDUAL MOIST LAYER AROUND 850 MB. COLUMN
BEGINS TO WARM SLIGHTLY SO EXPECT TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREE
WARMER.

RETURN FLOW SETS UP OVERNIGHT WITH MORE SIGNIFICANT WARMING THROUGH
COLUMN ON MONDAY. CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE 90S SO
EXPECT MORE SOLAR AS COLUMN CONTINUES TO DRY.

UPPER AND THERMAL RIDGE SHIFTS OVER FA ON TUESDAY. SFC BOUNDARY
SHIFTS INTO WESTERN DAKOTAS HOWEVER AT THIS TIME  LOOKS TO BE
CAPPED. WITH BOUNDARY TO THE WEST AND BASED ON 700MB TEMPERATURES
WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY POPS DURING DAY.

.EXTENDED...
DECENT AGREEMENT AMONG MODELS AND ENSEMBLES. PERIOD WILL BE
CHARACTERIZED BY A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE TRANSITIONING TO MORE OF A
ZONAL FLOW AFTER WED. WILL ADD THUNDER MENTION TUE NIGHT ACROSS
NORTH AS CAP WEAKENS...AND IN ALL AREAS WED/WED NIGHT. THURSDAY
THUNDER WILL LINGER IN EASTERN AREAS DURING THE MORNING. WILL KEEP
FRI/SAT DRY WITH EXPECTED ZONAL FLOW WITH LIMITED MOISTURE. TEMPS
WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL WED/THU...AND NEAR NORMAL FRI BEFORE WARMING
SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL BY SATURDAY.

.FGF....NONE.

VOELKER/KELLENBENZ

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 5:35 AM CST, 8 hours 45 minutes before

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-281330-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
635 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

...A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS FOR PARTS OF
NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST
CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST
AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT IS GENERALLY EAST OF A ROSEAU TO FERGUS FALLS LINE.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER
THREATS...WITH ISOLATED TORNADOS ALSO POSSIBLE.

COLD AIR ALOFT...IN CONJUNCTION WITH A SURFACE FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE
INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON...WILL
PROVIDE THE FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WHOLE AREA ON WEDNESDAY
AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY IN NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT.

FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FGF/INDEX.HTML (ALL LOWER CASE)

NG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 8:42 AM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS, ND
942 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

...DELAYED REPORTS FROM 6/27/03...

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0540 PM    4 W STRAUBVILLE           ND   F0 TORNADO
06/27/03   SARGENT

Local storm report, Jun 28, 9:42 AM CST, 4 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS, ND
1042 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

...DELAYED REPORTS FROM 6/27/03...

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0800 PM    2 W MAZA                  ND   F0 TORNADO
06/27/03   TOWNER                         FARMER SPOTTED TORNADO IN
                                          A FIELD, THEN MOVED INTO A
                                          SLOUGH AND LIFTED WATER 100
                                          FEET INTO AIR. WAS ON
                                          GROUND FOR 30 SECONDS, NO
                                          KNOWN DAMAGE AT THIS TIME.

0800 PM    6 NNW LEEDS               ND   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/27/03   BENSON

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 155 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:18 UTC.

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Event by event

4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Roseau

When: June 28, 2:20 PM CST to 2:25 PM CST
Where: Roseau County, Greenbush
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 48.700, -96.183

Hail, Beltrami

When: June 28, 2:45 PM CST
Where: Beltrami County, 4 mi SE of Kelliher
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 47.900, -94.383

Hail, Polk

When: June 28, 4:30 PM CST to 4:34 PM CST
Where: Polk County, 1 mi N of East Grand Forks
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 47.950, -97.017

Hail, Marshall

When: June 28, 6:20 PM CST
Where: Marshall County, 10 mi W of Argyle
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 48.333, -97.033

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

Every storm in Minnesota in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Minnesota, June 2003

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: 5366191, 5366188, 5366189, 5366190.