Hail, Bannock
- When
- July 24, 2:50 PM MST to 3:10 PM MST
- Where
- Bannock County, 4 mi W of Inkom
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.800, -112.333
Hail in Idaho, July 24, 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 24, 2:00 PM MST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:00 PM MST, 50 minutes before
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 300 PM MDT WED JUL 24 2002 TCU DEVELOPING OVER THE S-CENTRAL HIGHLANDS AND CENTRAL MTNS TRYING TO BREAK THROUGH A 5OOMB CAP...AND GENERALLY THE CAP IS HOLDING. THERE MAY BE AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO THIS AFT WHERE THE AIRMASS IS SLIGHTLY MORE UNSTABLE. THE UPPER TROF TO THE WEST WILL APPROACH THE AREA WITH JET DYNAMICS COMING INTO PLAY TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. PLACEMENT OF THE JET OVER CENTRAL ID TONIGHT SO HIGHEST POPS SOUTH AND EAST OF THE JET...FROM THE SNAKE PLAIN EAST. LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOS STILL RATHER DRY SO NOTHING HIGHER THAN LOW CHANCE POPS. AS ONE JET MAX DEPARTS ANOTHER ON ITS HEELS SO JET COUPLET WOULD SUPPORT CONVECTION ON THU ALONG WITH MODEST CAPES AND LI/S. ONCE AGAIN...HIGHEST POPS OVER THE EASTERN ZONES. TROF GETS CLOSER TO THE CENTRAL MTNS BUT MOISTURE IS LIMITED SO WILL MENTION SLIGHT CHANCE POPS. GENERALLY LOW POPS AREAWIDE FRI THROUGH FRI NIGHT AS UPPER TROF SETTLES IN. DRIER ON SAT WITH DEPARTING TROF AND COOLER NW FLOW. WILL HOLD ONTO LOW POPS THOUGH OVER ERN HIGHLANDS. SHORTWAVE ENERGY AND COLD AIR ADVECTION ON SAT WOULD SUPPORT BREEZY WINDS ON THE SNAKE PLAIN. EXTENDED...COOL BUT STABLE NW FLOW FOR ANOTHER COOL DAY ON SUN WITH TEMPS SIMILAR TO SAT TEMPS. THEN HIGHER PRESSURE STRENGTHENS IN THE GREAT BASIN FOR DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS MON-WED. WAW .KSFX...OPERATIONAL...VCP 21. BYI 61/89/59/86 3321 .PIH...NONE. PIH BB 058/089 056/087 054 13333
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 24, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 24, 2002
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 24, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, July 24 to 25, 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: 5307564.