Hail, Missoula
- When
- September 5, 6:20 PM MST
- Where
- Missoula County, 15 mi S of Huson
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 46.820, -114.330
Hail in Montana, September 5, 1997
Hail, the size of "Hershey's Kisses" and to 3/4 inch, was reported in a thunderstorm along Rock Creek.
Where it happened
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- 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 happened
The episode as NWS MSO wrote it up.
Hail, the size of "Hershey's Kisses" and to 3/4 inch, was reported in a thunderstorm along Rock Creek.
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:19 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 Alaska, September 5 to 7, 1997
- Flood in Florida, September 5, 1997
- Waterspout in Florida, September 5, 1997
- Funnel Cloud in Wyoming, September 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in California, September 5, 1997
- Flash Flood in Utah, September 5, 1997
- Hail in Idaho, September 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, September 5, 1997
- Hail in Idaho, September 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, September 5, 1997
- Funnel Cloud in Nebraska, September 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in California, September 5, 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: 5615413.