Hail, Albany
- When
- August 12, 6:45 PM MST to 6:47 PM MST
- Where
- Albany County, 7 mi N of Laramie
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.417, -105.583
Hail in Wyoming, August 12, 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 12, 12:50 PM MST, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 12:50 PM MST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 150 PM MDT MON AUG 12 2002 ERN PTN OF UPR TROF REMAINING ACTIVE WITH BAND OF SHWRS DGW-CDR...A LITTLE SLOWER TO END THAN FIRST THOT...BUT SHOULD STILL BE MOSTLY E OF AREA BY 4-6 PM. SHWRS DVLPG SEWD OFF OF WIND RIVER MTNS...THESE SHOULD BE THE START OF THE AREA OF SHWRS WHICH SPREADS INTO S CNTRL & SE WY LATER THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVNG. ALL MODELS SIMILAR IN SHOWG THIS PCPN THIS EVENG...WITH TREND FOR MOST SHWRS TO BE S INTO CO AFTER MIDN. CLOUDS DCRS FROM N TO S OVERNGT...WITH SOME QUITE COOL TEMPS IN MANY AREAS. FOR TUE INTO THU...DRY WITH A WARMING TREND AS NW FLOW TRANSITIONS TO W FLOW. GNDNC ON TRACK. IN EXTENDED...ZONAL FLOW WILL BE OVER THE CWA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...WITH DOWNSLOPE AT THE SURFACE. THIS WILL RESULT IN DRY AND WARM CONDITIONS FOR THE AREA. ON SUNDAY...SOUTHWEST FLOW DEVELOPS ALOFT WITH A SHORT WAVE PASSING OVER THE CWA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AGAIN ON MONDAY...AS SOUTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES ALOFT...WITH UPSLOPE FLOW AT THE SURFACE. .CYS... WY...NONE. NE...NONE.
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:44 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 Maryland, August 12 to 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, August 12 to 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strikes in Wisconsin, August 12, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, August 12, 2002
- Tornado in Missouri, August 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 12, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 12, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Iowa, August 12, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 12, 2002
- Heat in Virginia, August 12 to 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, 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: 5314562.