Hail, Stillwater
- When
- June 17, 6:30 PM MST
- Where
- Stillwater County, 10 mi SW of Columbus
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.533, -109.400
Hail in Montana, June 17, 2001
2 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
- 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 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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 1:45 PM MST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 1:45 PM MST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
245 PM MDT SUN JUN 17 2001
.MON AND TUE...
TWO PROBLEM AREAS FOR TONIGHT. FIRST (EARLIER) IN THE EAST...GOOD
SOUTHEAST FLOW HAS KEPT DEWPOINTS IN LOWER TO MID 50S IN EASTERN ZONES
AHEAD OF WEAK SURFACE TROUGH AS LOW DEEPENS OVER WYOMING. FAIR SHEAR
WITH EASTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW AND MID LEVEL WESTERLY WINDS INCREASING TO
50 KNOTS. SHOULD BE A CHANCE OF SEVERE EARLY WITH ACTIVITY SHIFTING
FURTHER EAST THIS EVENING. IN THE WEST...WATER VAPOR SHOWING VERY STRONG
WAVE MOVING ONTO PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. NEITHER MODEL SEEMS TO BE
STRONG ENOUGH WITH IT. JET ASSOCIATED WITH IT NOSES INTO SOUTHWEST
MONTANA BY 06Z WITH GOOD DIVERGENCE PROGGED BY ETA/AVN OVER WESTERN
ZONES BY 06Z. AVN THEN MOVES STRONG AREA OF 700 MB OMEGA ACROSS ENTIRE
CWA TONIGHT...LOOKING LIKE AN MCC SIGNATURE. ETA MUCH WEAKER WITH
THIS ENERGY AS IT MOVES INTO EASTERN MONTANA LATER TONIGHT. WILL LEAN TO
STRONGER AVN...AND GO WITH LIKELY POPS ACROSS CWA TONIGHT.
MONDAY...WEAK TROUGHING GETS CARVED OUT OVER AREA...WITH ANOTHER WAVE
DROPPING INTO NORTHEAST MONTANA. SURFACE HIGH SETTLES INTO AREA. SOME
INSTABILITY AROUND...CYCLONIC FLOW AND LOW CONVECTIVE TEMPS WILL KEEP
SHOWERS GOING. WILL ALSO BE COOLER.
TUESDAY...MORE SHORTWAVE ENERGY DROPS INTO WEAK TROUGHING OVER
MONTANA...ONE WHICH PUSHES ACROSS SOUTHERN MONTANA. ALTHOUGH ATMOSPHERE
MORE STABLE...WILL COVER WITH ISOLATED POPS. RASCH
.WED...THU...FRI...SAT...SUN...
SHOWERS WILL LINGER ACROSS SOUTHEAST MONTANA TUESDAY NIGHT AND
WEDNESDAY AS A SHORTWAVE IN NORTHWEST FLOW AFFECTS THAT AREA. AFTER
THAT...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL BUILD OVER MONTANA...BRINGING
HOT AND DRY WEATHER TO THE AREA THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THE RIDGE AXIS
WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN MONTANA SATURDAY AND INTO THE DAKOTAS SUNDAY...
ALLOWING THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA WEST OF THE AXIS.
MIDDENDORF
MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
-----------------------------------------------------------
BIL 050/069 047/071 049/078 055/086 059/092 060/090 060/088
73/T 22/W 00/U 00/U 00/U 03/T 33/T
LVM 045/067 043/070 043/077 048/085 052/089 055/088 053/085
83/T 32/W 00/U 00/U 00/U 03/T 33/T
HDN 048/070 045/072 045/082 051/089 055/095 057/094 057/092
73/T 22/W 00/U 00/U 00/U 03/T 33/T
MLS 054/064 048/073 049/077 055/087 059/092 062/094 062/094
66/T 40/B 22/B 00/U 00/U 02/B 23/T
4BQ 053/063 047/072 047/075 053/085 057/090 060/092 060/092
66/T 40/B 22/B 00/U 00/U 02/B 23/T
BHK 052/062 046/071 045/075 050/085 055/090 058/092 058/092
66/T 40/B 22/B 00/U 00/U 02/B 23/T
SHR 048/071 043/072 043/077 048/085 052/091 055/091 055/089
63/T 20/B 00/U 00/U 00/U 03/T 33/TThe radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:30 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Carbon
- When
- June 17, 6:40 PM MST
- Where
- Carbon County, 8 mi NW of Joliet
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.567, -109.100
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 Illinois, June 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Massachusetts, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 17, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, June 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Connecticut, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Tornado in Maine, June 17, 2001
More
Every storm in Montana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, June 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: 5250270, 5250271.