Montana, 2002

Hail in Montana, June 18, 2002

June 18, 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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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
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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 Jun 18, 7:03 PM MST, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 7:03 PM MST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
803 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2002

.SHORT TERM...VALID FOR WED...THU...FRI...

ZONES ALREADY UPDATED. UPDATE FOR AFP. COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS MONTANA
THIS EVENING WITH GUSTY WINDS DEVELOPING WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE...
ALONG WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HAVE INCREASED POPS TO LIKELY FOR
ALL BUT THE NORTHWEST ZONES WHERE FRONT IS ALREADY THROUGH. ATMOSPHERE
VERY UNSTABLE OVER CARTER COUNTY THIS EVENING AS EVIDENT BY SUPER CELL
DEVELOPMENT. CAPES AROUND 1200 J/KG THIS EVENING ALONG WITH GOOD SPEED
AND DIRECTIONAL SHEAR. THE THREAT OF ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. RICHMOND

.LONG TERM...VALID FOR SAT...SUN...MON...TUE...
UNSETTLED WEATHER SHAPING UP FOR MONTANA THIS WEEKEND AS THE AVN/MRF
BRING AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM INTO THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. THE MODELS
DEVELOP SURFACE LOW PRESSURE OVER WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHERN
WYOMING ON SATURDAY...WHICH WOULD PROVIDE SOUTHERN MONTANA WITH A GOOD
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. FOR SUNDAY...THE AVN/MRF BUILD
SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE INTO THE AREA BUT BOTH MODELS STILL HAVE AN UPPER
LEVEL TROF LINGERING OVER MONTANA AT 12Z...WITH THE MRF BUILDING A
SHORTWAVE RIDGE OVER THE AREA BY 00Z MON. THERE STILL MIGHT BE A CHANCE
OF SHOWERS IN THE AREA ON SUNDAY MORNING BUT THEY SHOULD BE SHORT LIVED
WITH THE UPPER FLOW BECOMING ANTICYCLONIC BY AFTERNOON. THEREFORE I WILL
KEEP DAY 5 PARTLY CLOUDY WITH THIS IN MIND. THE CURRENT EXTENDED
FORECAST IS CARRYING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS FOR DAY 6...MONDAY...WHICH
I WILL KEEP GOING AS THE MRF DROPS ANOTHER TROF OVER THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST AND SHIFTS OUR WINDS ALOFT TO A MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW. I WILL
ALSO MENTION A CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS FOR DAY 7 AS THE
MODELS DEVELOP WEAK LOW PRESSURE OVER SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND KEEP A
SOUTHWEST FLOW OF AIR ALOFT. KUHL

    WED     THU     FRI     SAT     SUN     MON     TUE
-----------------------------------------------------------
BIL 050/073 052/080 056/083 054/081 055/083 055/079 055/079
    +0/B    00/B    32/T    33/T    30/B    03/T    33/T
LVM 043/069 046/074 049/079 047/078 048/080 048/076 048/076
    +0/B    00/B    32/T    33/T    30/B    03/T    33/T
HDN 049/074 051/080 054/085 057/083 058/085 058/081 058/081
    +0/B    00/B    42/T    33/T    30/B    03/T    33/T
MLS 053/075 054/080 055/085 059/082 060/084 059/080 059/080
    +2/T    00/B    42/T    33/T    30/B    03/T    33/T
4BQ 051/074 052/079 054/084 061/081 062/083 061/079 061/079
    +2/T    00/B    42/T    33/T    30/B    03/T    33/T
BHK 051/072 052/078 054/083 062/080 063/082 062/078 062/078
    +2/T    00/B    42/T    33/T    30/B    03/T    33/T
SHR 049/073 045/078 054/080 058/080 059/082 059/078 059/078
    40/E    00/B    42/T    33/T    30/B    03/T    33/T

.BYZ...
MT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CARTER COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT.
WY...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 8:14 PM MST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR WMO HEADER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS, MT
914 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0710 PM    BIDDLE                    MT   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   POWDER RIVER                   REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0715 PM    5 N BIDDLE                MT   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/18/02   POWDER RIVER

0810 PM    9 NW ALZADA               MT   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0810 PM    9 NE ALZADA               MT   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0825 PM    ALZADA                    MT   4.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER

0828 PM    ALBION                    MT   .75 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER

0841 PM    ALZADA                    MT   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

JRS
Local storm report, Jun 18, 8:14 PM MST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS, MT
914 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0710 PM    BIDDLE                    MT   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   POWDER RIVER                   REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0715 PM    5 N BIDDLE                MT   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/18/02   POWDER RIVER

0810 PM    9 NW ALZADA               MT   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0810 PM    9 NE ALZADA               MT   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0825 PM    ALZADA                    MT   4.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER

0828 PM    ALBION                    MT   .75 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER

0841 PM    ALZADA                    MT   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

JRS
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 8:37 PM MST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
MTZ037-190430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
937 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2002

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR
CARTER COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

SCARLETT
Local storm report, Jun 18, 8:58 PM MST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR WMO HEADER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS, MT
914 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0710 PM    BIDDLE                    MT   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   POWDER RIVER                   REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0715 PM    5 N BIDDLE                MT   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/18/02   POWDER RIVER

0810 PM    9 NW ALZADA               MT   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0810 PM    9 NE ALZADA               MT   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0825 PM    ALZADA                    MT   4.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER

0828 PM    ALBION                    MT   .75 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER

0841 PM    ALZADA                    MT   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/18/02   CARTER                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

JRS

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Carter

When
June 18, 11:01 PM MST
Where
Carter County, 19 mi NE of Alzada
Measured
1.5 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
45.217, -104.133

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: 5302846.