Hail, Bannock
- When
- July 19, 1:05 PM MST to 1:15 PM MST
- Where
- Bannock County, Pocatello
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.867, -112.433
3/4 inch hail reported at intersection of Gibson Jack Road and Banoch Highway.
Hail in Idaho, July 19, 2002
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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 8:35 AM MST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 8:35 AM MST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 935 AM MDT FRI JUL 19 2002 JUICY AIRMASS IN PLACE THIS MORNING ACROSS CWFA WITH SFC DEWPTS IN THE 50S (58 AT KPIH AND KIDA). SLC SOUNDING CONTINUES TO CARRY PW OVER 1 INCH...AND THUS SHOULD STAY MOIST THROUGH DAY DESPITE 12Z MESOETA TRYING TO DRY OUT PWS OVER CWFA. SHOWERS ALREADY FIRING IN SNAKE VALLEY NEAR KMUO AHEAD OF MAIN S/WV TRACKING NORTHEAST OUT OF WRN NV. THIS TREND LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH REMAINDER OF MORNING BEFORE BEST INSTABILITY HITS MID AFTERNOON. INVISION ANOTHER SCENARIO LIKE YDAY WITH SCT TO NMRS SLOW MOVING TSTORMS WITH START OF BEST CONVECTION OVR MTN TERRAIN. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE...BUT WONT BE WIDESPREAD ENOUGH FOR A FLASH FLOOD WATCH. CURRENT FCST IN GOOD SHAPE OVERALL...WILL BRING A ZONE OR TWO CURRENT BUT NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED AT THIS TIME. DMH .KSFX...OPERATIONAL...VCP 21. BYI 85/56/84 221 .PIH...NONE. PIH BB 087/055 086/051 085 04221
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:06 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 in West Virginia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 19, 2002
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Idaho in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, July 2002
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: 5307561.