Hail, Morrow
- When
- July 7, 8:02 PM PST
- Where
- Morrow County, Boardman
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.833, -119.717
Hail in Oregon, July 7, 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 7, 7:30 PM PST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 7:30 PM PST, 32 minutes before
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 830 PM PDT SUN JUL 7 2002 A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS CROSSING OVER THE CASCADES. THE SYSTEM IS LIFTING THE WARM MOIST LOW LEVEL AIR EAST OF THE CASCADES RESULTING IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN SEVERE WITH WITH .75 INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST WIND GUST REPORTED SO FAR IS 76 MPH AT THE PASCO AIRPORT. THESE WINDS HAVE REDUCED VISIBILITIES BRIEFLY TO AS LOW AS ONE QUARTER MILE IN THE COLUMBIA BASIN AND ALONG THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUES. THE FIRST BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN. HOWEVER...A SECOND BAND OVER CENTRAL OREGON IS SHOWING SIGNS OF INCREASING IN INTENSITY AS IT MOVES NORTH THIS EVENING. PDT 3200 ALW 3200 PSC 3000 YKM 3000 KPDT...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE
The radar
The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:02 UTC.
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, July 7 to 8, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Idaho, July 7, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Washington, July 7, 2002
- Flash Flood in Minnesota, July 7 to 8, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Washington, July 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 7, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, July 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 7, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Minnesota, July 7 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Washington, July 7, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oregon, July 7, 2002
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, 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: 5307173.