Hail, Platte
- When
- June 21, 4:24 PM MST to 4:28 PM MST
- Where
- Platte County, Glendo
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 42.500, -105.033
Hail in Wyoming, June 21, 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 Jun 21, 2:22 PM MST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:22 PM MST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 322 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 2002 SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE FLUSHED OUT SOME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WEST OF THE RANGES...BUT DEW POINTS IN THE 50S HAVE BEEN LINGERING EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH OUT OF COLORADO LATE THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE IT INTO THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA BEFORE SUNSET. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE AREA AS SOUTHEAST WINDS INTERACT WITH A WARM FRONT. MOST OF THE OVERNIGHT HOURS SHOULD REMAIN DRY...WITH A FEW MORE LATE DAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY. TEMPS ARE THE MAIN CONCERN TOMORROW... WITH 700 MB TEMPS SUPPORTING ANOTHER DAY OF 80S AND 90S. A WEAK COLD FRONT COMES THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY...WHICH SHOULD HOLD TEMPS DOWN SOME. HOWEVER...THE RESPITE FROM HIGH TEMPS AND LOW RH LOOKS TO BE SHORT- LIVED. .EXTENDED... THE TREND IS STILL TOWARD HOT AND CONTINUED DRY FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD. A PERSISTENT UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY OVER THE INTER-MOUNTAIN REGION WITH A STRONG NEGATIVE HEIGHT ANOMALY OVER ALASKA. THIS HAS BEEN WELL ADVERTISED AND IS IN ALL LONG RANGE MODELS. ASIDE FROM SOME PM THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST WYOMING IN THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK...HOT AND DRY SHOULD BE THE MESSAGE AFTER WEDNESDAY. .CYS... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. RGB/WTP
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:24 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, 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 Wyoming in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, 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: 5296531.