Hail, Wallowa
- When
- June 8, 7:55 PM PST
- Where
- Wallowa County, 3 mi E of Joseph
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.350, -117.167
One inch hail, along with gusty winds, was reported at an elevation of 4200 feet.
Hail in Oregon, June 8, 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 7:10 PM PST, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 7:10 PM PST, 45 minutes before
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 810 PM PDT FRI JUN 8 2001 BUSY EVENING WITH SOME SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING. UPPER TROUGH STILL ON TRACK MOVING TOWARD THE WEST COAST WITH NUMEROUS DISTURBANCES TO MOVE THROUGH TROUGH. LOHMANN EXTENDED...A TROUGH MOVES THROUGH WASHINGTON AND OREGON MONDAY WITH COOLER AIR AND CHANCE POPS OF SHOWERS AREAWIDE. WITH THE TROUGH AXIS INTO IDAHO TUESDAY...WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ONLY FOR THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON DUE TO WRAPAROUND MOISTURE...OTHERWISE DRY AND COOL TUESDAY. A WARMING AND DRYING TREND WILL DEVELOP WITH HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT APND AT THE SURFACE WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. FARMER PDT 4211 ALW 4211 PSC 3111 YKM 3111 .KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE.
The radar
The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:55 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 Flooding in Louisiana, June 8 to 13, 2001
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 8, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, June 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, June 8, 2001
- Hail in Oregon, June 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 8, 2001
- Flooding in Illinois, June 8 to 17, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 8, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, June 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 8, 2001
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, 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: 5251410.