Hail, Bannock
- When
- May 27, 3:15 PM MST to 4:15 PM MST
- Where
- Bannock County, 10 mi S of Pocatello
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.717, -112.433
3/4 inch hail reported at Mink Creek
Hail in Idaho, May 27, 2001
1 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
- 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 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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 27, 1:15 PM MST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:15 PM MST, 2 hours before
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 215 PM MDT SUN MAY 27 2001 UPPER RIDGE STILL HOLDING ON TO CWA WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY FIREING OFF IN THE SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS AND MOVING INTO THE SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS FROM NEVADA. UNSTABLE AIR AND VERY WEAK SHORTWAVE PROVIDING THE TRIGGER. THIS AFTERNOONS CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL KEEP MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES THROUGH THE NIGHT AND INTO MONDAY WHEN APPROACHING PACIFIC TROUGH WILL CONTINUE THE MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. TROUGH OFF PACIFIC LOW AND FRONT MOVING INTO EASTERN WASHINGTON AND OREGON THIS EVENING. THIS TROUGH TO SWING THROUGH IDAHO MONDAY NIGHT AND IS FOLLOWED BY A MORE ZONAL H5 PATTERN. ALDEN BYI 52/80/49/76 2110 .KSFX WSR-88D...OPERATIONAL...VCP 21. .PIH...NONE. PIH EB 050/079 047/072 041 09221
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:13 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
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado in New Jersey, May 27, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Maryland, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 27, 2001
More
Every storm in Idaho in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, May 2001
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: 5243155.