Hail, Teton
- When
- July 23, 2:25 PM MST to 2:35 PM MST
- Where
- Teton County, Driggs
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.717, -111.100
Hail in Idaho, July 23, 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 23, 2:00 PM MST, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:00 PM MST, 25 minutes before
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 300 PM MDT TUE JUL 23 2002 CONVECTION FIRING QUITE NICELY THIS AFTERNOON IN TWO AREAS OF THE CWA. RESIDUAL INSTABILITY IN THE ERN HIGHLANDS IS SUPPORTING CONVECTION NORTH OF U78. MSAS LIFTED INDEX FIELD SHOWS UNSTABLE POOL OVR NW WY...WITH VALUES GRADUALLY BECOMING LESS UNSTABLE TO THE WEST INTO ERN ID. THIS CONVECTION SHOULD DIE OUT QUICKLY THIS EVENING. ANOTHER POOL OF UNSTABLE AIR SHOWS UP IN THE MSAS LI FIELD OVR CEN ID...WITH CONVECTION BUILDING SWD INTO THE NWRN CWA. THIS AREA IS ALSO VERY DIURNAL IN NATURE...AND SHOULD DIE OUT DURING THE EVENING HOURS. BY WED...THE UPPER RIDGE BECOMES BETTER DEFINED. WITH TEMPS ALOFT WARMING...SHOULD KEEP ANY CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY IN CHECK UNTIL THU. A WAVE EMBEDDED IN THE SWRLY FLOW ALOFT ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE RIDGE HAS AWAKENED THE ETA QPF...GENERATING A RATHER WIDEPSREAD EVENT THU AND THU NIGHT. MAY BE A LITTLE OVERDONE...BUT THE ETA DID WELL WITH THE LAST PRECIP EVENT IN ERN ID. THUS WILL BUY OFF ON THE SOLUTION... WITH A LITTLE CONSERVATISM. AVN NOT NEARLY AS AGGRESSSIVE WITH THE QPF...BUT IT ALSO WAS NOT WITH THE LAST EVENT. LOWER POPS ON FRI AS WAVE MOVES OUT...WITH LINGERING PRECIP IN THE ERN HIGHLANDS INTO SAT. REST OF THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN DRY ON SAT. REST OF FCST LOOKS TO BE DRY. HEDGES .KSFX...OPERATIONAL...VCP 11. BYI 59/95/60 000 .PIH...NONE. PIH UB 058/094 058/091 55 07000
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Rip Current in Florida, July 23, 2002
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 23, 2002
- Heat in California, July 23, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 23, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Maine, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alaska, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 23, 2002
- Dust Storm and Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 23, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 23, 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: 5307563.