Hail, Emery
- When
- July 15, 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Emery County, Ferron
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.100, -111.133
Large hail fell in Ferron, with law enforcement officials reporting 1 3/4" hail.
Hail in Utah, July 15, 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 Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 15, 2:28 PM MST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:28 PM MST, 32 minutes before
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 328 PM MDT SUN JUL 15 2001 SYNOPSIS...INCREASING SOUTHWEST FLOW OVER UTAH THE NEXT FEW DAYS WILL BRING A LESS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY BUT INCREASING AFTERNOON WINDS. DISCUSSION...WARNINGS STARTING WITH 1 INCH HAIL JUST REPORTED BETWEEN NEPHI AND PROVO. STRONG UPDRAFTS WITH A FEW ORGANIZED ENOUGH FOR SEVERE HAIL. WARNING GOING OUT FOR CELL NEAR SCOFIELD. 300 MB JET OVER SOUTHERN UTAH WILL INTENSIFY MONDAY. DRYING TREND WILL CONTINUE TOMORROW AND TRIMMING BACK SHOWERS TO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND EASTERN BASINS. MAY SEE A SHALLOW BOUNDARY PUSH INTO NORTHERN UTAH ABOUT WEDNESDAY EVENING...RETREATING BACK NORTH THURSDAY EVENING. FOR NOW NOT INDICATING MUCH TREND IN TEMPERATURES THROUGH DAY SEVEN. BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS EACH AFTERNOON WESTERN VALLEYS AND AIRMASS BECOMING INCREASINGLY DRY. SLC 3111 CDC 1111 GIBSON .SLC...NONEW.
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 226 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:57 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 Flood in South Dakota, July 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 15, 2001
- Dust Devil in New Mexico, July 15, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, July 15, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, July 15, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 15, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in South Dakota, July 15, 2001
- Waterspouts in Florida, July 15, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Montana, July 15, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kansas, July 15, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, July 15 to 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 15, 2001
More
Every storm in Utah in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, 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: 5275567.