Hail, Fergus
- When
- June 28, 2:10 AM MST
- Where
- Fergus County, Buffalo
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.817, -109.817
Reported by spotter in Buffalo.
Hail in Montana, June 28, 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 28, 1:45 AM MST, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 1:45 AM MST, 25 minutes before
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 245 AM MDT THU JUN 28 2001 .SHORT TERM...VERY BUSY NIGHT CONTINUES OVER THE AREA BUT CONVECTION CONTINUES TO SLOWLY WEAKEN. BIGGEST THREAT FROM THE STORMS NOW APPEARS TO BE FLOODING RAINS. FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 THIS MORNING FOR SEVERAL EASTERN ZONES. MODELS IN RELATIVELY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH REGARDS TO THE LARGE SCALE FEATURES. AVN SEEMS TO HAVE A BETTER HANDLE ON THE POSITION OF THE SHORTWAVES AND WILL BE THE PREFERRED MODEL OF CHOICE. HIGHLY AMPLIFIED PATTERN IS FLATTENED A BIT AS UPPER LEVEL LOW AND TROF SITTING OFF THE WEST COAST IS PUSHED TO THE NORTHWEST BY STRENGTHENING H5 RIDGE. THIS PATTERN CHANGE WILL EFFECTIVELY PUSH MOST OF THE SHORTWAVE ENERGY INTO SOUTHERN CANADA AS THE PERIOD PROGRESSES. CONVECTION STILL OCCURRING ALONG A SURFACE CONVERGENCE ZONE ACROSS CENTRAL MONTANA AIDED BY SHORTWAVE ENERGY AND VERY HIGH...ALMOST TROPICAL...MOISTURE. LATEST STREAM LINE ANALYSIS SHOWS BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM SOUTHERN MEAGHER TO NORTHERN BLAINE COUNTIES. MODELS MOVE THE BOUNDARY OUT OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA BY MORNING AND DRY OUT THE AIRMASS CONSIDERABLY. WILL CARRY OVER SCATTERED POPS FOR THE EASTERN ZONES THIS MORNING. BEST CHANCE OF CONVECTION ON THURSDAY WILL BE OVER SOUTHEAST MONTANA WHERE BEST DYNAMICS AND MOST UNSTABLE AIR LIE. UPPER FLOW OVER AREA BECOMES MORE CYCLONIC WITH REALLY NO STRONG SHORTWAVES TO SPEAK OF. STILL...WITH CONTINUING SOUTHWEST FLOW AIRMASS DESTABILIZES OVER THE SOUTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON WITH LIFTED INDICES OF -2 AND CAPES OF 1000. WILL MENTION SOME SHOWERS AND STORMS. WEAK SHORTWAVE PASSES THROUGH NORTHWEST MONTANA EARLY FRIDAY SO A FEW SHOWERS POSSIBLE AT THAT TIME. AVN GUIDANCE NUMBERS LOOK GOOD AND WILL BE FOLLOWED PRETTY CLOSELY. .EXTENDED...CURRENT EXTENDED FORECAST LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. UPPER TROUGH WILL REMAIN PARKED OFF THE COAST EARLY IN THE PERIOD BEFORE BEING PUSHED TO THE NORTHWEST AS STRONG H5 RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE 4 CORNERS AND ACTUALLY RETROGRADES A BIT DURING THE PERIOD. JUST A FEW WEAK DISTURBANCES TO WORRY ABOUT EARLY IN THE PERIOD BEFORE THE RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS OVER WESTERN MONTANA WHICH SHOULD PROVIDE MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS WITH A WARMING TREND. WILL REMOVE MENTION OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS. OTHERWISE NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES. GOUDSWARD CCF NUMBERS GTF BB 078/059 076 05311 CTB BB 076/048 074 05310 HLN BB 078/050 078 05221 BZN BB 080/048 078 05221 WEY BB 074/044 074 05221 DLN BB 078/048 076 05221 HVR BB 083/052 084 05532 LWT BB 076/048 075 05532
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 9:30 PM MST, 4 hours 40 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 12:02 AM MST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
MTZ011-013-047-050-051-280800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 102 AM MDT THU JUN 28 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR BLAINE...HILL...CHOUTEAU...JUDITH BASIN AND FERGUS COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS STILL CONTINUING OVER THE REGION. THESE STORMS ARE SLOWLY WEAKENING AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS NEAR 45 MPH... SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 AM FOR WEST CENTRAL FERGUS COUNTY...NORTH CENTRAL JUDITH BASIN COUNTY AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CHOUTEAU COUNTY. GOUDSWARD
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:12 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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 28 to 29, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 28, 2001
- Waterspout in South Carolina, June 28, 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: 5254441.