Hail, Deschutes
- When
- July 7, 4:10 PM PST
- Where
- Deschutes County, Alfalfa
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.083, -121.017
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, 1:35 PM PST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 1:35 PM PST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 235 PM PDT SUN JUL 7 2002 A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM HAS MOVED ONSHORE...AND STARTING TO CROSS OVER TO THE EAST SIDE OF THE CASCADES. CONVECTIVE SHOWERS ARE FORMING ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES...SOUTH OF MADRAS AND NORTH OF JOHN DAY EXTENDING INTO THE BLUE MOUNTAINS AS SEEN ON SATELLITE IMAGERY AND RADAR. THIS SYSTEM IS VERY UNSTABLE AND MOIST...AND THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LAST THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE WITH HIGH WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL. SOME SHOWERS MAY LINGER INTO THE THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. HOWEVER...DRY AND COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL FOLLOW TOMORROW AS A RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ON MONDAY. BY TUESDAY...THE TEMPERATURE WILL START TO WARM AGAIN. PALMER EXTENDED...A RIDGE WILL BE OVER THE AREA THROUGH THURSDAY PROVIDING SUNNY SKIES AND INCREASING TEMPERATURES. AS THE RIDGE SHIFTS EAST ON THURSDAY EVENING AND FRIDAY MOISTURE WILL MIGRATE NORTHWARD IN THE THE AREA AROUND THE EDGE OF THE RIDGE. THIS MOISTURE AND THE RECEDING RIDGE WILL INCREASE THE INSTABILITY OVER CENTRAL OREGON... THE OCHOCOS AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. SOME AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP. THE REST OF THE AREA WILL REMAIN HOT AND DRY. BY SATURDAY THE 850 MB TEMPERATURES AND VARIOUS THICKNESS VALUES WILL DECREASE SLIGHTLY SUGGESTING THAT TEMPERATURES WILL DROP SLIGHTLY. COONFIELD PDT 3200 ALW 3200 PSC 3000 YKM 3000 KPDT...VCP32/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 10:40 AM PST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
ORZ041>050-WAZ024>030-081000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 1140 AM PDT SUN JUL 7 2002 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER EASTERN OREGON AND WASHINGTON LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS OREGON AND WASHINGTON LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL GENERATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. BE PREPARED FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCAL HEAVY RAIN... LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
The radar
The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 238 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:08 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: 5307183.