Hail, Bonneville
- When
- August 8, 4:00 PM MST to 4:10 PM MST
- Where
- Bonneville County, Idaho Falls
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- METEOROLOGIST(NON NWS)
- Coordinates
- 43.483, -112.033
Hail in Idaho, August 8, 2003
Television meteorologist reported 3/4 inch hail in Idaho Falls.
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 happened
The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
Television meteorologist reported 3/4 inch hail in Idaho Falls.
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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 1:30 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:30 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 230 PM MDT FRI AUG 8 2003 LATEST SATIMG SHOWING MID/UPR CLOUDS WORKING NE ACROSS FORECAST AREA AHEAD OF UPPER S/WV WITH SOME CONVECTION FIRING WITHIN MONTANA/WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. CLOUDS SHOULD CLEAR FORECAST AREA AROUND MAX HEATING AND ISOLATED TSTM DEVELOPMENT ON BACK EDGE OF CLOUD MASS STILL A POSSIBILITY OVER CNTRL MOUNTAINS/UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS THUS WILL LEAVE SLIGHT CHANCE WORDING IN THOSE ZONES. AS FOR REMAINDER OF FORECAST...UPPER TROUGH TO REMAIN ANCHORED OFF PAC NW COAST AS H5 RIDGE OVER NEW MEXICO SHIFTS NW INTO 4-CORNERS REGION OPENING DOOR FOR POSSIBLE INFLUX OF SUB-TROPICAL MOISTURE ACROSS SE ZONES. HAVE TRIMMED BACK COVERAGE OVER ERN HIGHLANDS SUNDAY AS BEST CHANCE FOR A SURGE APPEARS TO BE MONDAY/TUESDAY. FOCUS BEGINS TO SHIFT TOWARD THE NW WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS PAC NW TROUGH BEGINS TO OPEN UP AND LIFT NE INTO CNTRL CANADA BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. MAIN THREAT WITH TROUGH PASSAGE SHOULD BE WINDS AND COOLER TEMPERATURES. HUSTON KSFX...OPERATIONAL...VCP 21. .PIH...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 4:00 AM MST, 12 hours before
IDZ017>023-031-032-090000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 500 AM MDT FRI AUG 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS...ALL WEATHER REPORTS ARE MUCH APPRECIATED AND IMPORTANT...EVEN OBSERVED WEATHER THAT DOES NOT REACH SEVERE CRITERIA. TRAINED SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER HOTLINE...OR OTHER STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:58 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
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, August 8, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Michigan, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flood in Florida, August 8, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 8, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 8, 2003
- Flood in Ohio, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flood in Maine, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, August 8, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 8, 2003
More
Every storm in Idaho in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, August 2003
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: 5333694.