Hail, Humboldt
- When
- June 21, 2:30 PM PST to 2:40 PM PST
- Where
- Humboldt County, Paradise Vly
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.407, -118.112 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail in Nevada, June 21, 2002
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Elko, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 21, 12:30 PM PST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 12:30 PM PST, 2 hours before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 130 PM PDT FRI JUN 21 2002 12Z LKN SOUNDING HAD PW OF .70 AND LI OF -6. STORM ACTIVITY INCREASING ACROSS CWA AT THIS TIME... WILL HAVE TO KEEP DISCUSSION SHORT. ABUNDANT LIGHTNING BUT STORMS WILL BE WET ENOUGH TO AVOID DRY LIGHTNING. WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS TONIGHT AREAWIDE DECREASING TO SLIGHT CHANCE TOMORROW. SOME CONCERN OF FLASH FLOODING DUE TO SLOW MOVING STORMS... PER COORDINATION WITH BOI WILL MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN NORTH. SPC CALLED ABOUT CONCERN FOR SEVERE WEATHER AS THEY ARE CONSIDERING A WATCH FOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON. HAVE ALREADY HAD A FEW MARGINAL SEVERE STORMS OVER THE PAST HOUR WITH HAIL AND WIND MAIN THREAT. FORECAST DRIES OUT SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY AS UPPER TROUGH MOVES EAST AND FLOW GOES ZONAL. ANOTHER TROUGH WILL KEEP THE AREA UNSETTLED BEGINNING MONDAY... WILL INCLUDE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS. .EKO...NONE. 95
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
- Heat in Illinois, June 21 to 25, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, June 21 to 22, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Utah, June 21, 2002
- Flash Flood in Nevada, June 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Minnesota, June 21 to 22, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Michigan, June 21, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Utah, June 21, 2002
- Tornadoes in Iowa, June 21, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, June 21, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Minnesota, June 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 21, 2002
More
Every storm in Nevada in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, June 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: 5325429.