Name: Hail in Utah, August 29, 2002
Start: 2002-08-29T13:00
End: 2002-08-29T13:10
Location: Utah

Where it happened

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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 Grand Junction, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 29, 1:30 AM MST, 11 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 1:30 AM MST, 11 hours 30 minutes before

WESTERN COLORADO & EASTERN UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
230 AM MDT THU AUG 29 2002

LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE WESTERN GREAT BASIN TO EJECT NORTH-
EASTWARD INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. JET NOSING
INTO THE FOUR CORNERS ALREADY GENERATING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN CWFA. SO FAR...RAINFALL LIGHT BUT WINDS GUSTY AS
MID-LEVELS STILL RATHER DRY. DEWPOINT VALUES HAVE COME UP FROM
YESTERDAY OVER THE FOUR CORNERS...EXTENDING NORTH TO THE GRAND VALLEY
THIS MORNING. AS A RESULT...EXPECT NOT ALL THUNDERSTORMS TO BE DRY.
NONETHELESS...FIRE WEATHER STILL A MAJOR CONCERN WITH WATCH ALREADY
IN PLACE APPEARING WELL WARRANTED. WILL LET DAY SHIFT SETTLE DETAILS
OF POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNING.

PRESENT FORECAST FOR TODAY APPEARS ON TRACK. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW
SHORTWAVE ENERGY AND JET INFLUENCE TO BE THE STORY TODAY. GIVEN
DEWPOINT FIELD ALLUDED TO ABOVE...WILL CONTINUE WITH BEST POPS OVER
THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND SCATTERED POPS ELSEWHERE. CLOUD COVER WILL
KEEP TEMPERATURES DOWN AND APPEARS MET DATA HAS GOOD HANDLE ON THE
SITUATION.

WAVE PUSHES EAST OF THE AREA TONIGHT...SO EXPECT SOME LINGERING
EVENING CONVECTION...THEN DRY AND CLEARING DURING THE REMAINDER OF
THE NIGHT TONIGHT. DRIER...SLIGHTLY MORE STABLE ENVIRONMENT IN PLACE
ON FRIDAY...THOUGH RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND INCREASED INSOLATION WILL
LIKELY YIELD SOME AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HIGHER
TERRAIN. TEMPS SHOULD REBOUND WITH RETURN OF SUNSHINE AND MET
GUIDANCE AGAIN APPEARS TO HAVE GOOD HANDLE ON THE EVOLVING PATTERN.
LITTLE CHANGE INDICATED FOR SATURDAY. NL

EXTENDED (SUN-WED)...AVN HAS REMNANTS OF WESTERN TROF LIFTING
NORTHEAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA ON TUE...WHILE UPPER HIGH REMAINS
OVER NRN MEXICO/SRN NM THROUGH PERIOD. WILL CONTINUE WITH FORECAST OF
SWLY FLOW UNTIL THEN BASED ON AVN WITH SOME MID/HIGH LEVEL PACIFIC
MOISTURE ENTRAINED ACROSS THE AREA BEGINNING SUNDAY...AND THUS WILL
KEEP MENTION OF SLIGHT CHANCE FOR NOW ON SUN-MON ASSUMING ALSO SOME
WEAK EMBEDDED DISTURBANCES IN THE FLOW. THEN BETTER CHANCE FOR TUE AS
TROUGH LIFTS OUT. HOWEVER...ECWMF SHOWING MORE RIDGING OVER THE AREA
ON MONDAY WITH TROUGH NOW FARTHER WEST IMPLYING DRIER CONDITIONS...SO
WILL HAVE TO WATCH EVOLUTION.  JAD

.GJT...FIRE WEATHER WATCH THURSDAY FROM 1100 THROUGH 2200 MDT
       FOR ALL FIRE WX ZONES IN EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 29, 12:59 PM MST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION, CO
159 PM MDT THU AUG 29 2002

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

1220 PM    DURANGO                   CO   TORNADO
08/29/02   LA PLATA                       *** 0 DEAD, 0 INJ ***
                                          REPORTED BY
OTHER

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1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Uintah

When: August 29, 1:00 PM MST to 1:10 PM MST
Where: Uintah County, 3 mi SW of Randlett
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 40.200, -109.833

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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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Utah in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Utah, August 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: 5320724.