Hail, Fergus
- When
- June 29, 9:30 PM MST
- Where
- Fergus County, Moore
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.983, -109.683
Reported by spotter in Moore.
Hail in Montana, June 29, 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 29, 8:00 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 8:00 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 900 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2001 NO UPDATES PLANNED THIS EVENING. FORECAST APPEARS ON TRACK. MAIN FEATURE THIS EVENING IS THE MODERATELY STRONG UPSLOPE FLOW OVER MUCH OF THE CWA. HIGH PRESSURE IS POSITIONED OVER S CENTRAL ALBERTA AND WILL CONTINUE TO EXERT UPSLOPE PRESSURE NEXT 36 HOURS. CURRENT FORECAST CALLS FOR A CHANCE OF SHOWERS BY MORNING...ALONG FRONT RANGE...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INCREASES IN THE UPSLOPE FLOW. THIS IS SUPPORTED BY THE NEW ETA. A FAIRLY MOIST SHORT WAVE TROUGH IS DUE NEXT...SATURDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY...BRINGING A GOOD CHANCE SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. CROSS- SECTIONS SUGGEST BEST CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION AROUND MIDNIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH DRYING BY LATE SUNDAY MORNING. CURRENT FORECAST HAS SITUATION WELL COVERED. MIELKE CCF NUMBERS GTF BB 052/082 055/082 048 04325 CTB EN 049/076 051/078 045 04225 HLN BB 053/085 055/085 050 04223 BZN BB 051/084 051/083 046 04323 WEY BB 045/080 045/079 040 04433 DLN BB 050/084 050/083 047 04222 HVR EB 056/085 060/085 050 04125 LWT EB 054/079 054/079 046 04234
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:31 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
- Heat in Nevada, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 29, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 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: 5254442.