Montana, 2002

Hail in Montana, July 6, 2002

July 6, 2002 · NWS BYZ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 7:40 PM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 7:40 PM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
840 PM MDT SAT JUL 6 2002

.SHORT TERM...VALID FOR SUN...MON...TUE...
ANALYSIS OF UPPER AIR CONTINUES TO SHOW SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. FAIRLY
LIGHT FLOW AT THE 700 MB LEVEL AND BELOW. THUS...THUNDERSTORMS SO FAR
HAVE BEEN BASICALLY STACKED. LOOKING AT SATELLITE AND RADAR
DEPICTIONS...MORE STORMS COULD AFFECT THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. FOR THE
NOW...BELIEVE THAT TIMING THEM TO END MAY NOT BE WISE. TEMPERATURES
LOOK REASONABLE FOR TONIGHT. AM NOT PLANNING UPDATES AT THIS TIME. CHB

.LONG TERM...VALID FOR WED...THU...FRI...SAT...
MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN OK AGREEMENT OVERALL. RIDGE WILL REBOUND INTO
ZONES WITH A VENGEANCE WEDNESDAY. MOST MODELS HAVE 597 DM HEIGHTS
PUSHING INTO SOUTHERN MONTANA. WILL BUMP UP TEMPS FOR WEDNESDAY AS IT
LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER SCORCHER. FOR THURSDAY AND BEYOND...MODELS AGAIN IN
GOOD AGREEMENT WITH RIDGE FLATTENING DOWN AS H5 HEIGHTS LOWER SOME.
WILL GO WITH A SLIGHT COOLING TREND THROUGH THE LATER PERIODS...BUT
TEMPS WILL STILL BE HOT. WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY AS SEE LITTLE IN WAY OF
PRECIP CHANCES WITH DRY WESTERLY FLOW. SCARLETT

    SUN     MON     TUE     WED     THU     FRI     SAT
-----------------------------------------------------------
BIL 062/092 066/097 057/090 056/095 060/093 062/090 062/090
    33/T    20/G    30/U    00/U    00/U    00/U    00/U
LVM 055/087 056/092 049/087 051/091 052/089 054/089 054/089
    33/T    23/T    30/U    00/U    00/U    00/U    00/U
HDN 060/095 065/099 055/093 056/097 059/094 060/092 060/092
    33/T    20/G    30/U    00/U    00/U    00/U    00/U
MLS 066/094 069/099 058/093 058/098 062/094 063/091 063/091
    33/T    30/G    30/U    00/U    00/U    00/U    00/U
4BQ 064/094 068/099 057/092 057/095 061/093 062/090 062/090
    33/T    30/G    30/U    00/U    00/U    00/U    00/U
BHK 065/093 068/097 059/089 055/092 059/090 060/088 060/088
    33/T    30/G    30/U    00/U    00/U    00/U    00/U
SHR 060/096 066/098 055/090 056/094 055/092 056/089 056/089
    33/T    20/G    30/U    00/U    00/U    00/U    00/U

.BYZ...
MT...NONE.
WY...NONE.

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Big Horn

When
July 6, 9:35 PM MST
Where
Big Horn County, St Xavier
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates
45.467, -107.717

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

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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5304069.