Hail, Caribou
- When
- August 18, 3:18 PM MST
- Where
- Caribou County, Soda Spgs
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.650, -111.580
Hail up to golfball-size reported at Soda Springs Highschool.
Hail in Idaho, August 18, 1997
3 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
- 3
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 radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:17 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Caribou
- When
- August 18, 3:21 PM MST
- Where
- Caribou County, Soda Spgs Arpt
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.650, -111.580
Hail, Caribou
- When
- August 18, 3:23 PM MST
- Where
- Caribou County, Soda Spgs
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.650, -111.580
Reported by the County Emergency Director in center of Soda Springs. Hail accumulated 1 to 2 inches.
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
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 18, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, August 18 to 19, 1997
- Flood in Ohio, August 18, 1997
- Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, August 18 to 20, 1997
- Rip Current in Florida, August 18, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 18, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 18, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 18, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 18, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 18, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, August 18, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, August 18, 1997
More
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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: 5618361, 5618362, 5618363.