Wyoming, 2001

Hail in Wyoming, July 23, 2001

July 23, 2001 · NWS UNR · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 23, 12:45 PM MST, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 12:45 PM MST, 5 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
145 PM MDT MON JUL 23 2001

BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AND ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITATION CHANCES
ARE EXPECTED THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW PREVAILS
ALOFT...AND MOIST EAST FLOW GETS ESTABLISHED AT THE SURFACE. FOR
TONIGHT MOST OF THE CWFA WILL BE IN THE RIGHT-REAR QUADRANT OF AN
UPPER-LEVEL JET...WITH SIGNIFICANT THETA-E ADVECTION IN THE LOWER
LEVELS. THIS WILL LEAD TO A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION...WITH THE
MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT EARLY IN THE CYCLE...PRIMARILY OVER
NORTHEASTERN WY AND FAR SOUTHWESTERN SD. AFTER THAT...SLOW-MOVING
STORMS WILL BRING A HEAVY RAIN THREAT TO THE BLACK HILLS VICINITY.
ON TUESDAY THE BIG CHALLENGE IS THE TEMPERATURE-CLOUD FORECAST.
PLENTY OF LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...COMBINED WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR
ONGOING ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS...MAY LIMIT HEATING THROUGHOUT MUCH
OF THE DAY. THERE SHOULD BE A BREAK IN THE STORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON
INTO EARLY EVENING...BUT ANOTHER WEAKER WAVE SHOULD BRING SOME MORE
STORMS OVERNIGHT TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. WARMER WEATHER WILL
RETURN FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...WITH THE MOISTURE/INSTABILITY AXIS
ACROSS WESTERN SD...LEADING TO SOME AFTERNOON STORMS ONCE AGAIN.
MUCH THE SAME IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE EXTENDED WITH A WEST-SOUTHWEST
QUASI-ZONAL FLOW AND CONTINUAL WAVES BRINGING DAILY CHANCES OF
THUNDERSTORMS.

.UNR...NONE.

MJB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 23, 4:34 PM MST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
534 PM MDT MON JUL 23 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0500 PM    7 S SUNDANCE              WY   2 INCH HAIL
07/23/01   CROOK                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0500 PM    5 S SUNDANCE              WY   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/23/01   CROOK                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0510 PM    SUNDANCE                  WY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/23/01   CROOK                          REPORTED BY STORM
                             [             SPOTTER.

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The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 157 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:08 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Crook

When
July 23, 6:10 PM MST
Where
Crook County, Devils Tower
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates
44.583, -104.700

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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: 5260801.