Hail, Elmore
- When
- July 2, 5:40 PM MST
- Where
- Elmore County, Glenns Ferry
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.950, -115.300
Hail in Idaho, July 2, 1998
Scattered thunderstorms developed over south west Idaho during the afternoon and evening hours. A thunderstorm produced 3/4 inch hail near Garden Valley.
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
- 2
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 BOI wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms developed over south west Idaho during the afternoon and evening hours. A thunderstorm produced 3/4 inch hail near Garden Valley. Another thunderstorm dropped 1.25 inch hailstones at Glenns Ferry.
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:41 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Boise
- When
- July 2, 8:02 PM MST
- Where
- Boise County, 1 mi W of Garden Vly
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.080, -115.470
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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The same day elsewhere
- Heat and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 2 to 27, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 2 to 25, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Wildfire in Idaho, July 2 to 31, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
- Flash Flood in Montana, July 2, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 2, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Tennessee, July 2 to 4, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, July 2, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 2 to 3, 1998
- Hail in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
- Hail in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
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: 5662283, 5662284.