Montana, 2002

Hail in Montana, June 16, 2002

June 16, 2002 · NWS GGW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
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  • 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 Glasgow, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 1:48 PM MST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 1:48 PM MST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
NORTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
215 PM MDT SUN JUN 16 2002

CORRECTED THIRD PERIOD CCF MINIMA.

.SHORT TERM...A WEAK VORT MAX JUST NORTH OF GGW SLIDING SOUTHEAST
FROM SASKATCHEWAN TOWARD NORTHEAST CWA GLIDING OVER RIDGE WITH AXIS
OVER IDAHO. THIS FEATURE HAS COME CLOSER THAN EXPECTED BECAUSE RIDGE
HAS NOT TRANSLATED EAST AS QUICKLY AS EARLIER THOUGH. SCATTERED
SHOWERS WITH A FEW STRAY LIGHTNING STROKES CURRENTLY CROSSING NORTH
HALF OF CWA. A LOCAL THETA-E RIDGE...SURFACE BASED LI/S -4 TO -6
...AND PATCHES OF ALTOCUMULUS JUSTIFY RECENT UPDATE FOR ISOLATED
CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MODELS REMAIN IN AGREEMENT
BRINGING RIDGE ACROSS MONTANA OVERNIGHT AS CLOSED LOW COMES ASHORE
ON BC COAST...SHOOTING FIRST IN A SERIES OF SHORT WAVE IMPULSES
ACROSS MONTANA MONDAY WITH ACCOMPANYING PACIFIC COOL FRONT. WITH
RIDGE DISPLACED AND FLATTENED...PERIODIC IMPULSES EXPECTED TO CROSS
REGION WITH A MORE SIGNIFICANT IMPULSE DUE TUESDAY. TIMING AND
PLACEMENT DIFFERENCES SLIGHTLY BETWEEN MESO ETA AND AVN...AVN FASTER
...WETTER...MORE POTENT THAN MESO ETA. MESO ETA HAS BEEN MORE
REALISTIC OF LATE...WILL KEEP AS MAIN GUIDANCE. CURRENT FORECAST
LARGELY ON TRACK THROUGH TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY LIKELY TO BE BREEZY WITH
ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AS MID LEVEL COLD POOL EXPECTED TO SKIM
ALONG INTERNATIONAL BORDER...BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS NORTH ZONES...
MAY NOT EVEN MENTION SHOWERS SOUTH ZONES. TEMPERATURES WILL ALSO
GRADUALLY DECLINE THROUGH WEDNESDAY DUE TO COOL FRONT AND INCREASED
CLOUDS...THIS TREND ALREADY PRETTY WELL ACCOUNTED FOR IN GOING ZONES.

.LONG TERM...SIMILAR PATTERNS EVIDENT IN AVN/MRF AND ECMWF SOLUTIONS
SHEARING REMAINS OF BC CLOSED LOW ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERNATIONAL
BORDER THROUGH WEDNESDAY...LEAVING RESIDUAL TROUGHING ALONG PACIFIC
COAST. QUASI-ZONAL FLOW EXPECTED THURSDAY...THEN SHALLOW TROUGH
ALONG PACIFIC COAST LIKELY TO EXTEND INFLUENCE TO MONTANA IN SLIGHT
SOUTHWEST FLOW COMPONENT THAT PERSISTS THROUGH DAY SEVEN. PARTLY
CLOUDY AND GHOST 20 POPS SHOULD SUFFICE. MINOR FLUCTUATIONS IN
TEMPERATURES THROUGH PERIOD...THURSDAY LIKELY SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN
REMAINING DAYS...NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL EXPECTED.   DNS

KGGW BEE 052/080 049/074 044/072 86221322
     BBBB 048/076 048/080 050/081 050/081 8611122222
KGDV BEB 052/082 049/076 045/075 86121322
     BBBB 049/078 050/080 050/081 050/082 8611122222

.GGW...NONE

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Phillips

When
June 16, 3:40 PM MST
Where
Phillips County, 10 mi N of Malta
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
48.500, -107.867

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5305812.