Hail, Fergus
- When
- June 27, 11:45 PM MST
- Where
- Fergus County, Suffolk
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 47.467, -109.333
Actual spotter location Suffolk 2 W.
Hail in Montana, June 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 Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 8:40 PM MST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 8:40 PM MST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 940 PM MDT WED JUN 27 2001 LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED ACROSS EASTERN CWA...NEAR HVR/LWT LINE AT 03Z. HAVE RECEIVED REPORTS OF AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WITH STORMS WITH RADAR INDICATING A FEW STRONGER STORMS. LINE PUSHING INTO MORE UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT AND EXPECT ACTIVITY TO INCREASE AS LINE MOVES EAST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR HILL...BLAINE...CHOUTEAU...FERGUS AND JUDITH BASIN COUNTIES UNTIL 1 AM MDT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING OVER WESTERN CWA STRETCHING BACK INTO EASTERN WA TO SOUTHWEST ID. WILL DROP CHANCES OF PRECIP SLIGHTLY BEHIND LINE AND WORD FOR DECREASING ACTIVITY AFTER MIDNIGHT. FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...UPPER FLOW BECOMES MORE CYCLONIC...ALTHOUGH RESIDUAL INSTABILITY AND WEAK SHORTWAVES AFFECTING THE SOUTHEAST ZONES WILL ALLOW FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. EXTENDED...UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE TROUGH REMAINS CENTERED OFF BC COAST EARLY IN PERIOD WITH HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE CENTERED OVER FOUR CORNERS REGION. TROUGH CONTINUES TO SPIN DISTURBANCES INLAND WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW OVER PACIFIC NORTHWEST STEERING THE DISTURBANCES INTO WESTERN MONTANA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE WILL BRUSH ACROSS THE NORTHWEST AND NORTHERN PORTION OF THE CWA SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY FOR THE BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS. AS THIS DISTURBANCE EXITS...THE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BEGINS STRENGTHENING AND RETROGRADING...WITH THE CENTER OVER NORTHWEST WY AND THE AXIS SHIFTING TO THE MT/ID BORDER. THIS SHIFT WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES SEASONABLY WARM WITH ONLY ISOLATED AFTERNOON SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS. GTF BB 054/078 050/078 048 19211 CTB BB 050/072 047/072 045 19511 HLN BB 045/080 050/080 050 19211 BZN BB 052/080 049/080 048 19222 WEY BB 046/072 044/074 042 19222 DLN BB 051/078 047/078 056 19411 HVR BU 054/083 050/083 050 19611 LWT BB 053/074 048/074 046 19422
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 9:30 PM MST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 1030 PM MDT WED JUN 27 2001 MTZ011-013-016-021-047-050-051-059-060-280530- BLAINE-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS-CHOUTEAU-FERGUS-HILL-JUDITH BASIN-NORTHERN PHILLIPS-PETROLEUM-SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS- 1030 PM MDT WED JUN 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 474... IN NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA: BLAINE CHOUTEAU HILL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 474 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM MDT FOR...FERGUS...JUDITH BASIN...PETROLEUM AND PHILLIPS COUNTIES.
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 154 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:46 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
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Washington, June 27, 2001
- Heat in Maryland, June 27 to 30, 2001
- Heat in Texas, June 27, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 27, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Washington, June 27, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 27 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 27, 2001
- Tornado in Washington, June 27, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Washington, June 27, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, June 27, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 27, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 27, 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: 5254440.