Hail, Laramie
- When
- June 29, 5:25 PM MST to 5:30 PM MST
- Where
- Laramie County, 5 mi W of Cheyenne
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 41.133, -104.917
Hail in Wyoming, June 29, 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 29, 1:37 PM MST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 1:37 PM MST, 3 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 237 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2001 NORTHERN PANHANDLE CONTINUES TO DESTABLIZE WITH SURPRISINGLY "JUICEY" DEWPOINTS EXTENDING FROM SOUTH-CENTRAL SD TO IEN/CDR WITH AROUND 70F. SURFACE BOUNDARY...WHICH CROSSED WY/CO AND NEB/CO AROUND NOON...HAS SUPPRESSED CONVECTION IMMEDIATELY BEHIND IT. STRONG STORMS FIRING BLACK HILLS WITH INCREASING CONVECTION INTO EAST-CENTRAL WY. EARLIER SWOMCD CONFIRMS SUSPICION OF SEVERE WATCH FOR NORTHERN PANHANDLE AT ANY TIME. APPEARS CWA WILL BE LOCKED INTO RISK SEVERE THROUGH WEEKEND...MAINLY LARAMIE MOUNTAINS EASTWARD. BOTH ETA/AVN INDICATE INCREASING QPF AFTER MIDNIGHT AS CONVECTION OFF BIG HORNS OF NORTH-CENTRAL WY AND BLACK HILLS MOVES DOWNSTREAM TONIGHT. ETA HAS INTENSE...CONVECTIVELY INDUCED...VORTICITY CENTER OVER WEST-CENTRAL SD AT 12 UTC/6 AM SAT WITH TAIL OF WAVE EXTENDING THROUGH SOUTHEAST CORNER WY. WILL GO WITH HIGH SCATTERED-TYPE POP FORECAST EAST OF LARAMIE MOUNTAINS TONIGHT. TEMP/POP FORECAST SAT THROUGH SUN LOOKS LIKE A BROKEN RECORD WITH PREDOMINATELY 85-95F HIGHS AND 20-30 PERCENT POPS. POPS MORE SEASONAL SOUTH-CENTRAL. MEAN RIDGE AXIS NORTHEAST/SOUTHWEST THROUGH SOUTHEAST CORNER WY ATTM SHIFTS SOUTH AND DE-AMPLIFIES THROUGH 60 HRS/6 PM SUN. REMAINS OF AXIS WILL EXTEND EAST FROM FOUR CORNER UPPER HIGH THEN. FLAT RIDGGING OR NEARLY ZONAL FLOW NORTH-NORTHEAST FROM UPPER HIGH THROUGH CENTRAL WY SUN AFTERNOON. MODELS CONTINUE IDEA OF GENERALLY WEAK SOURCES OF UPPER DIVERGENCE EACH 12 HRS DURING WEEKEND. ONE OVER WESTERN SD SAT MORNING...AND ANOTHER THROUGH CENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST WY SUN MORNING COULD PRODUCE ISOLATED LATE NIGHT/MORNING SHOWERS/ T-STORMS. .EXTENDED DISCUSSION...MEAN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE GRADUALLY RETROGRADES WITH TIME LEAVING OUR CWA IN NW FLOW ALOFT. BETTER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY IN THIS FLOW PATTERN. CANADIAN HIGH PRESSUTRE BUILDS SOUTH INTO THE HIGH PLAINS BY THE END OF THE WEEK WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES EXPECTED FOR THE LAST PART OF THE WORK WEEK. .CYS... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. COX/STARK
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:26 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
- Heat in Nevada, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 29, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
More
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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: 5255792.