Heavy Rain, Wheatland
- When
- July 4, 4:45 PM MST to 5:30 PM MST
- Where
- Wheatland County, Twodot
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.466, -109.844 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail and Heavy Rain in Montana, July 4, 1998
1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel Cloud, Wheatland
- When
- July 4, 5:30 PM MST
- Where
- Wheatland County, Harlowton
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.466, -109.844 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Wheatland
- When
- July 4, 5:30 PM MST
- Where
- Wheatland County, Twodot
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.420, -110.070
A thunderstorm produced three quarters of an inch of rain in 15 minutes in and nickel sized hail in Twodot. This same storm produced a funnel cloud just to the north of Harlowton.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- 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
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 4, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Montana, July 4, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in North Dakota, July 4 to 20, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Montana, July 4, 1998
- Tornado in Indiana, July 4, 1998
- Damaging Wind and Heavy Rain in Kansas, July 4, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 4, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 4, 1998
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 4, 1998
- Tornado in Texas, July 4, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 1998
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, July 4, 1998
More
Every storm in Montana in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, July 1998
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: 5658061, 5658060, 5658062.