Hail, Harney
- When
- July 20, 2:42 PM PST to 3:05 PM PST
- Where
- Harney County, Burns
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.583, -119.050
Spotter at 11 NE Burns reported windows broken by 1.75 inch hail.
Hail in Oregon, July 20, 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 Boise, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 12:25 PM PST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 12:25 PM PST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
SOUTHWEST IDAHO/SOUTHEAST OREGON AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO 225 PM MDT FRI JUL 20 2001 WELL DEFINED VORT CENTER NCENTRAL OREGON MOVING NEWD. THUNDER- STORMS IN BOTH THE COMMA HEAD AND COMMA TAIL. TAIL WILL COME THROUGH WRN AND NRN CWA THIS EVENING. NEXT VORT CENTER NEAR 43/131 WAS INSTEAD PROGGED INSIDE 130W AND WAS FORECAST TO TRACK EWD INTO SRN IDAHO ZONES MIDDAY SATURDAY...EXITING NRN IDAHO ZONES LATE SATURDAY. BUT WITH THE ABOVE ERROR THE CENTER MAY COME IN FURTHER SOUTH AND LATER THAN PROGGED...SO WILL HAVE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF -TSRA ALL THE WAY EAST TO SRN TWIN FALLS COUNTY SATURDAY. ON SUNDAY ONLY NRN-MOST CWA STILL THREATENED WITH 20 PCT POPS...REST OF CWA LOOKS DRY. SLIGHTLY COOLER SATURDAY THEN SLIGHTLY WARMER AGAIN SUNDAY. EXTENDED...NEW MRF DIFFERS GREATLY FROM YESTERDAY'S MRF. SINCE ECM SUPPORTED YESTERDAY'S MRF WILL STAY MOSTLY WITH THAT SOLUTION AND MAKE ONLY SMALL CONCESSION TO TODAYS'S MRF. THAT IS... CONTINUED WARMING AND DRYING WITH ONLY A CHANCE OF -SHRA/-TSRA LATE IN WEEK NEAR NV BORDER. L COLIN .BOI...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Wisconsin, July 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Montana, July 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 20, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, July 20, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Montana, July 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 20, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, July 20 to 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, July 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: 5262047.