Hail, Laramie
- When
- June 8, 4:15 PM MST to 4:20 PM MST
- Where
- Laramie County, 8 mi E of Cheyenne
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.133, -104.667
Hail in Wyoming, 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 1:00 PM MST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:00 PM MST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 200 PM MDT FRI JUN 8 2001 TWO S/WV TROFS EVIDENT ON WV IMAGERY...ONE OVER UT/SRN ID AND ANOTHER OVER SW CO. LOW LVL MSTR BEING ADVECTED INTO THE NE PANHANDLE BY SOUTHEAST BLYR FLOW /DWPTS UPR 50S TO LOWER 60S/. LAPS ALREADY SHOWING LI/S OF -5 TO -7 OVR ERN PARTS OF THE FA. SCT TSTMS WL DVLP LATER TODAY WITHIN THE H8 MSTR GRADIENT OVR ERN PARTS OF THE FA /CYS DWPT 43 DEGF...CDR DWPT 64 DEGF/. MORE NUMEROUS ACTIVITY MAY DVLP CLOSER TO S/WV ENERGY OVR NE WYOMING...AND THEN PUSH SOUTHEAST ON THE ERN SIDE OF THE UPR RIDGE. BEST SVR POTENTIAL APPEARS TO BE OVR THE PANHANDLE...WHERE 0-6KM SHEAR AND LOW LVL MSTR ARE THE MOST IMPRESSIVE. LATER TONIGHT...LOW CLDS/FOG ONCE AGAIN A POSSIBILITY OVER THE SRN PANHANDLE AS 35KT H8 FLOW BRINGS LOW LVL MSTR NORTHWARD OUT OF ERN CO. STATUS QUO WX PATTERN FOR THE WEEKEND. UPR TROF PUSHES TOWARD THE PACIFIC NW...WHILE BROAD W/SW UPR FLOW W/ EMBEDDED S/WVS CONTS OVR THE FA. THE MORE DOMINATE WESTERLY FLOW WL HELP TO ADVECT DRIER AIR INTO THE REGION...PUSHING MOST OF THE TSTM THREAT EAST OF THE FA INTO THE PLAINS. WL USE ISOLD WORDING FOR THE WY ZONES...WITH 20% POPS IN THE PANHANDLE WHERE SLIGHTLY HIER H8 DWPTS ARE PRESENT. MOST LIKELY THE WARMEST TEMPS OF THE YEAR THUS FAR SAT/SUN AS H7 THERMAL RIDGE MOVES ACRS THE AREA /H7 TEMPS +14 TO +16 DEGC/. .EXTENDED DISCUSSION... RATHER ACTIVE PATTERN IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD. A CLOSED UPR LOW WILL MOVE FROM PUGET SOUND EASTWARD ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER MONDAY AND TUESDAY. WEAK S/WVS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND HIGH PLAINS WITH A CHANCE OF SHWRS AND TSTMS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY WILL BE COOLER AND REMAIN UNSETTLED AS A VORTICITY LOBE ROTATING DOWN THE BACKSIDE OF THE UPR LOW PUSHES A BACKDOOR COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA. NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL DEVELOP THURSDAY WITH VORT MAXIMA CONTG TO MOVE RAPIDLY OVER THE AREA. FLOW ALOFT WILL BACK TO ZONAL FRIDAY WITH WEAK PACIFIC SHORTWAVE ENERGY MOVING OVER THE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH A CONTINUING CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION. .CYS... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. JK/JMR
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 12 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:16 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 Wyoming in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, 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: 5255773.