Hail, Carter
- When
- June 21, 8:55 PM MST
- Where
- Carter County, 17 mi E of Alzada
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.017, -104.067
Hail in Montana, June 21, 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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 21, 7:58 PM MST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 7:58 PM MST, 57 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
858 PM MDT SAT JUN 21 2003
.SHORT TERM...VALID FOR SUN AND MON...
UPDATE TO ZFP. NO UPDATE TO AFP. UPPER LEVEL JET CENTERED OVER UT THIS
EVE WAS BRINGING UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE TO EASTERN PORTION OF FORECAST
AREA. MEANWHILE UPPER LOW SPINNING OVER SOUTHERN ALBERTA WILL CONTINUE
SENDING VORT ENERGY ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT THROUGH AT LEAST SUN.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED MOVING NE THROUGH THE AREA THIS
EVENING. COLD AIR ALOFT WAS CAUSING STORMS TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. EXPECT
INTENSITY OF PRECIPITATION TO DECREASE AFTER SUNSET. WILL UPDATE
FORECAST TO ADJUST POP COVERAGE OVERNIGHT. WILL HAVE CHANCE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS OVER ENTIRE AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN WILL TAPER OFF
CHANCES FROM W TO E. WILL HAVE JUST A CHANCE OF SHOWERS E AFTER 09Z.
SUNDAY SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO TODAY AS UPPER LOW SLIDES E AND LAPSE RATES
REMAIN STEEP. ANOTHER JET WILL MOVE E FROM THE PACIFIC COAST BRINGING
LIFT TO THE AREA LATE IN THE DAY.
TEMPS OVERNIGHT LOOKED FINE BASED ON CURRENT OBSERVATIONS. SURFACE
HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD E OVERNIGHT WHICH SHOULD KEEP WINDS UP A
LITTLE OVER THE REGION. COMBINATION OF SOME CLOUD COVER AND WIND SHOULD
KEEP TEMPS FROM FALLING BELOW FORECAST LOWS. ARTHUR
.LONG TERM...VALID FOR TUE...WED...THU...FRI...SAT...
GFS DEVELOPING SOUTHWEST FLOW BY MONDAY AS ENERGY SPLITS OFF MAIN LOW
OVER ALBERTA AND CLOSES OFF IN IDAHO. SEVERAL WAVES PROGGED TO SPIN
INTO EASTERN ZONES TUESDAY...WITH UPPER TROUGH MOVING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY. BEST DAYS FOR ANY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LOOK TUESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY. WILL LET POPS RIDE FOR THURSDAY AS GFS MAY BE TOO FAST WITH
SYSTEM AND UNCERTAIN ABOUT THIS. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY LOOK TO BE WARMER
AND DRY WITH NORTHWEST FLOW AND RISING HEIGHTS. NO BIG CHANGES TO GOING
EXTENDED FORECAST. SCARLETT
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
-----------------------------------------------------------
BIL 049/069 048/072 050/069 051/070 051/073 051/076 050/080
33/T 03/T 33/T 33/T 33/T 00/U 00/B
LVM 041/063 041/066 043/065 045/068 046/071 046/074 048/078
32/T 04/T 43/T 33/T 34/T 00/U 00/B
HDN 048/070 047/073 051/070 050/070 052/073 052/076 051/080
33/T 23/T 44/T 43/T 33/T 00/U 00/B
MLS 050/071 047/073 050/072 052/071 052/074 052/077 051/081
34/T 40/B 44/T 43/T 33/T 00/U 00/B
4BQ 049/073 048/073 050/073 051/070 051/073 050/077 049/081
44/T 43/T 44/T 43/T 33/T 00/U 00/B
BHK 049/071 046/070 048/071 051/069 050/072 050/075 049/079
44/T 40/B 44/T 43/T 33/T 00/U 00/B
SHR 046/071 045/072 049/071 048/068 048/069 048/075 047/079
33/T 23/T 34/T 43/T 33/T 00/U 00/BHazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 4:10 AM MST, 16 hours 45 minutes before
MTZ028>042-056>058-WYZ098-099-221100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 510 AM MDT SAT JUN 21 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HUMPHREY
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Florida, June 21, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wyoming, June 21, 2003
- Flood in Florida, June 21 to 30, 2003
- Hail in South Dakota, June 21, 2003
- Flood in Florida, June 21 to 23, 2003
- Hail in South Dakota, June 21, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 21, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, June 21, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, June 21, 2003
- Tornado in Oregon, June 21, 2003
- Flash Flood in Mississippi, June 21, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 21, 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: 5360053.