Hail, Garfield
- When
- June 19, 8:20 PM MST to 8:27 PM MST
- Where
- Garfield County, 5 mi SE of Jordan
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 47.267, -106.800
Hail in Montana, June 19, 2003
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 Glasgow, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 7:30 PM MST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 7:30 PM MST, 50 minutes before
NORTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
830 PM MDT THU JUN 19 2003
SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY
WILL TWEAK FORECAST SLIGHTLY TO ACCOUNT FOR CURRENT CONVECTION IN
THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY PASSING ALONG A FRONTAL
BOUNDARY...AND TO ALLOW THE LAKE WIND ADVISORY TO EXPIRE AS WIND NOW
DIMINISHING BELOW CRITERIA. CONVECTION EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DECENTLY
THRU ABOUT 06Z...THEN DIMINISH OVERNIGHT...WITH A BETTER ROUND
EXPECTED TOMORROW. VALONE
UPPER LEVEL TROUGH TO BEGIN MOVING EASTWARD FRIDAY WITH MAXIMUM
CHANCES FOR RAINFALL STILL EXPECTED TOMORROW EVENING AND NIGHT OVER
CWFA. GRADUAL DRYING INDICATED UNDER WESTERLY FLOW FROM WEST TO EAST
ACROSS THE CWFA ON SATURDAY. LYNN
.LONG TERM...SAT NIGHT THRU THURSDAY
UNSETTLED PATTERN ENTIRE EXTENDED PERIOD AS MODELS SHOW DEEP AND
PERSISTENT MEAN UPPER TROUGH OVER WESTERN UNITED STATES. BELOW
NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDER THROUGH BULK OF
PERIOD. WHILE COOL...COLD TEMPERATURES AT MID-LEVELS OF ATMOSPHERE
SUGGEST ENOUGH INSTABILITY TO INCLUDE THUNDER...PLUS IN BETTER
AGREEMENT WITH ADJACENT OFFICES. ETA/AVN SHOW DRYING AND PARTIAL
CLEARING SATURDAY NIGHT...BUT HAVE INTRODUCED SLIGHT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND PARTLY CLOUDY TO COOPERATE WITH ADJACENT OFFICES WANTING
CHANCE POPS. EXPECT SECOND DRY AIRMASS TO PUSH IN SUNDAY NIGHT...
WHICH IS ALREADY IN GRIDS. DRY PERIOD COULD LINGER INTO MONDAY
MORNING BUT AGAIN HAVE ADJUSTED TO INCLUDE CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
TO COORDINATE WITH ADJACENT OFFICES. GFS SHOWS SECOND...REINFORCING
TROUGH ROTATING SOUTHEAST OUT OF GULF OF ALASKA EARLY NEXT WEEK
WHICH THEN PERSISTS THROUGH END OF PERIOD. WHILE REASONABLY
CONFIDENT WITH SYNOPTIC SCALE TREND IN FORECAST...MUST BROADBRUSH
GRIDS BECAUSE OF UNCERTAINTY OVER TIMING OF INDIVIDUAL VORTICITY
CENTERS ON MESO SCALE ROTATING AROUND LONG WAVE TROUGH. INHERITED
VERY COOL GRIDS...MADE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO BLEND BETTER WITH
GENERALLY SLIGHTLY WARMER GRIDS AT ADJACENT OFFICES. DNS
KGGW TTE 060/086 056/073 051/069 77366322
TTTT 048/070 049/069 049/070 049/073 8603333333
KGDV TTE 061/090 057/077 054/071 77046322
TTTT 045/072 050/071 050/072 050/075 8603333333
.GGW...NONEHazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 1:57 PM MST, 6 hours 23 minutes before
MTZ016>027-059>062-201200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 257 PM MDT THU JUN 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA .DAY ONE... A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR FORT PECK LAKE FOR TODAY THROUGH 9 PM THIS EVENING. SEE GTFNPWGGW OR WWUS75 KGGW FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WEST OF SCOBEY...WOLF POINT AND CIRCLE. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTHEAST MONTANA FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS FRONT. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 19, 3:54 PM MST, 4 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
0454 PM MDT THU JUN 19 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0452 PM 13 NW WINNETT MT 0.75 IN HAIL
06/19/03 PETROLEUM
VALONELocal storm report, Jun 19, 3:54 PM MST, 4 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR FOR CODING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
454 PM MDT THU JUN 19 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0452 PM 13 NW WINNETT MT 0.75 IN HAIL
06/19/03 PETROLEUM
NNNN
VALONELocal storm report, Jun 19, 5:18 PM MST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
0618 PM MDT THU JUN 19 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM 1 S WINNETT MT 0.75 IN HAIL
06/19/03 PETROLEUM
VALONELocal storm report, Jun 19, 5:40 PM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
0640 PM MDT THU JUN 19 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM 8 ESE WINNETT MT 0.88 IN HAIL
06/19/03 PETROLEUM
VALONEThe radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:18 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
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 19, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, June 19, 2003
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 19, 2003
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 19, 2003
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, June 19, 2003
- Flash Flood in Montana, June 19, 2003
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 19, 2003
- Flash Flood and Heavy Rain in Oklahoma, June 19, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Montana, June 19, 2003
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, June 19, 2003
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 19, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, June 19, 2003
More
Every storm in Montana in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, June 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: 5366724.