Hail, Crook
- When
- July 22, 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Crook County, 3 mi E of Devils Tower
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.583, -104.633
Hail in Wyoming, July 22, 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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 22, 2:00 PM MST, 6 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:00 PM MST, 6 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 300 PM MDT SUN JUL 22 2001 S/WV TROF MOVG THRU ERN MT HAS TRIGGERED TSTMS OVR ERN MT THIS AFTN. MDLS WEAKEN SRN VORT BY 00Z...BUT IT CURRENTLY SHOWS NO SIGNS OF WEAKENING. MST OF ENERGY W/ THE TROF WL ROTATE THRU MT AND ND...BUT WL ALSO CLIP NERN WY AND NWRN SD. ASSOC CD FNT WL PUSH THRU SD OVRNITE...BUT AMS WL BCM MOR STABLE AFTER SUNSET. TMW LOOKS COOLER W/ LOWER TSTM POPS...BUT ANTHR S/WV IS PROGGED TO MOV OVR THE AREA MON NITE. ELY UPSLOP SFC WNDS WL INCRS THE CHC OF PRECIP FOR THE BLK HLS AND FOOTHILLS...W/ SMLR POPS OVR THE REST OF THE AREA. THEN WNDS BECOM SELY AGAIN BY TUES FOR MOR AFTN/EVE TSTMS. THE EXTENDED PTN IS MOR ZONAL/NRN FLOW AND CUTS OFF THE SWRN MSTR FEED...BUT S/WVS WL HELP TRIGGER TSTMS. .UNR...NONE. SANDERS
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:02 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 22, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 22, 2001
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 22, 2001
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, 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: 5260381.