Hail, Deer Lodge
- When
- August 4, 12:28 PM MST
- Where
- Deer Lodge County, 3 mi W of Anaconda
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.133, -113.017
Hail in Montana, August 4, 2001
Severe thunderstorm produced large hail as it moved across Deer Lodge and Silver Bow Counties.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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 MSO wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorm produced large hail as it moved across Deer Lodge and Silver Bow Counties.
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 Missoula, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 8:31 AM MST, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 8:31 AM MST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
WESTERN MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 931 AM MDT SAT AUG 4 2001 .SHORT TERM...HAVE UPDATED ZFP AND SFP. MSX RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS SOME SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN RAVALLI COUNTY IN THE SOUTHWEST FLOW. CLOUDS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN IDAHO AND INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MONTANA...AHEAD OF THE UPPER TROUGH MOVING ACROSS WASHINGTON. EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AS THE TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE AREA... ALONG WITH BREEZY WINDS. RIDGE REBUILDS ON SUNDAY WITH A WARMING TREND. KOLATA .MSO...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Silver Bow
- When
- August 4, 12:55 PM MST
- Where
- Silver Bow County, 5 mi NW of Butte
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.050, -112.600
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
- Heat in Minnesota, August 4 to 8, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 4, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 4, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Alabama, August 4 to 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Montana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, August 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: 5261811, 5261812.