Hail, Musselshell
- When
- June 30, 6:20 PM MST
- Where
- Musselshell County, Delphia
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.500, -108.217
Hail in Montana, June 30, 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 30, 4:46 PM MST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 4:46 PM MST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
546 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2003
.SHORT TERM...VALID FOR TUE AND WED...
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MAKE THEIR WAY EAST. DUE ALSO TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT NORTH OF COUNTY WARNING AREA UNTIL
MIDNIGHT...EXPANDED THUNDERSTORM POSSIBILITY TO INCLUDE ALL OF COUNTY
WARNING AREA UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHB
.LONG TERM...VALID FOR THU...FRI...SAT...SUN...MON...
NO MAJOR CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED FORECAST EXCEPT TO REMOVE
PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT IN THE WEST.
PREDOMINATELY WESTERLY ZONAL FLOW WILL BE OVER THE FORECAST AREA
THURSDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY AS A FEW WEAK WAVES WILL MOVE
WITHIN THE FLOW. THE STRONGEST WAVE WILL JUST BRUSH THE NORTHERN ZONES
LATE IN THE DAY THURSDAY WITH THE BULK OF THE ENERGY REMAINING TO OUR
NORTH. SOME LIFT WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE. HOWEVER...LOW
LEVELS LOOK TO REMAIN DRY. THEREFORE...HAVE DECIDED TO REMOVE POPS FOR
THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. WAVE WILL BE WELL EAST OF THE AREA BY
FRIDAY WITH WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW CONTINUING. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL
DOWN TO NORMAL VALUES THROUGH SATURDAY. ZONAL FLOW WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY
AND BEFORE WEAK RIDGING BUILDS IN FOR MONDAY. PATTERN LOOKS TO REMAIN
DRY WITH TEMPERATURES WARMING TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL VALUES BY
THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. HOOLEY
TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON
-----------------------------------------------------------
BIL 058/090 057/089 055/083 053/081 054/082 056/085 058/085
20/G 00/U 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B
LVM 050/088 049/087 048/081 046/078 050/079 049/082 051/082
20/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B
HDN 058/090 057/089 055/085 053/082 053/083 056/086 058/086
20/G 00/U 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B
MLS 062/091 061/091 057/082 054/082 056/083 056/086 058/086
20/G 00/G 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B
4BQ 060/090 059/090 056/085 054/083 054/084 056/087 058/087
20/G 00/G 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B
BHK 061/089 060/089 056/082 053/080 055/081 055/084 057/084
22/T 20/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B
SHR 053/090 052/090 051/084 051/082 052/083 054/086 056/086
20/G 00/G 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B 00/B
.BYZ...
MT...NONE.
WY...NONE.Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 4:00 AM MST, 14 hours 20 minutes before
MTZ028>042-056>058-WYZ098-099-011045- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 500 AM MDT MON JUN 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA. THE BIGGEST THREAT FROM ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:18 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
- Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, June 30, 2003
- Heat in Virginia, June 30, 2003
- Tornado and Tropical Storm in Mississippi, June 30, 2003
- Tornado in Georgia, June 30, 2003
- Wildfire in California, June 30, 2003
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 30, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 30, 2003
- Hail in Nebraska, June 30, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Maryland, June 30, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 30, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 30, 2003
- Hail in South Dakota, June 30, 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: 5360054.