Hail, Klamath
- When
- August 6, 6:51 PM PST to 7:18 PM PST
- Where
- Klamath County, Crater Lake
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 42.950, -122.100
See below.
Hail in Oregon, August 6, 2003
Based on radar reports, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for the Crater Lake area, effective at the above times. The thunderstorm weakened soon after the warning was issued, and no verifying reports were received.
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 MFR wrote it up.
Based on radar reports, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for the Crater Lake area, effective at the above times. The thunderstorm weakened soon after the warning was issued, and no verifying reports were received.
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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 6, 12:45 PM PST, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 12:45 PM PST, 6 hours 6 minutes before
SOUTHWEST OREGON AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD, OR 145 PM PDT WED AUG 6 2003 AS EXPECTED SATELLITE PICTURE INDICATES ONLY INNOCUOUS CUMULUS CLOUDS HAVE DEVELOPED TO THIS POINT. THE AIR MASS OVER MUCH OF OUR INLAND REGION WILL DE-STABILIZE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A SHORTWAVE NEAR CAPE MENDOCINO MOVES EAST-NORTHEAST INTO SISKIYOU COUNTY AND THEN CONTINUES ACROSS KLAMATH AND NORTHERN LAKE COUNTIES THIS EVENING. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HIGHEST OVER THE CASCADES WITH ETA INDICATING BOUNDARY LAYER CAPE VALUES OF 200-1000 J/KG AND LI OF -1 TO -3. THE AIR MASS WILL STABILIZE BEHIND THE TROUGH WITH A PERSISTENT PATTERN SETTING UP FOR THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY. A CLOSED LOW WILL REMAIN OFFSHORE FROM NORTHERN OREGON AND WASHINGTON WITH COOL ONSHORE FLOW. A VERY WEAK SHORTWAVE WILL DEEPEN THE MARINE LAYER THURSDAY NIGHT FOR A CHANCE OF MIST/LIGHT SHOWERS AT THE COAST AFTER MIDNIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING ALONG WITH LOW CLOUDS SPREADING INTO THE UMPQUA BASIN. SIMILAR SITUATION SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY MORNING WITH A STRONGER MARINE PUSH AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES EAST TOWARD THE COAST. THE UPPER LOW IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AND MOVE INLAND TUESDAY FOR SLIGHT COOLING AND JUST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS WEST OF CASCADES. THERE IS A VERY SMALL POSSIBILITY OF A SOUTHWARD VARIATION IN THE PROJECTED LOW TRACK...WHICH WOULD WARRANT MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE CASCADES ON TUESDAY. DRY AND A LITTLE WARMER WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE EASTERN PACIFIC BUILDS IN BEHIND THE TROUGH. .MFR...NONE DW
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 5:30 AM PST, 13 hours 21 minutes before
ORZ021>031-CAZ080>085-071330- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 630 AM PDT WED AUG 06 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN OREGON AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HESS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 6, 4:17 PM PST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
517 PM PDT WED AUG 06 2003
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0512 PM ASHLAND OR 1.25 INCH HAIL
08/06/03 JACKSON SPOTTER JA58 REPORTS HAIL
WITH THE LARGEST THE SIXE
OF A GOLF BALL.
0514 PM MEDFORD OR .75 INCH HAIL
08/06/03 JACKSON SPOTTER JA40 NE MEDFORD
REPORTS 3/4 INCH HAIL AND
HEAVY RAIN FROM TSTM.
0515 PM MEDFORD OR .75 INCH HAIL
08/06/03 JACKSON THAI BISTRO REPORTS 3/4
INCH HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND AT STEVENS AND
BIDDLE.
0516 PM MEDFORD OR .75 INCH HAIL
08/06/03 JACKSON SPOTTER JA61 IN NE MEDFORD
REPORTS 3/4 INCH HAIL.Local storm report, Aug 6, 4:31 PM PST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
531 PM PDT WED AUG 06 2003
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0529 PM MEDFORD OR .5 INCH HAIL
08/06/03 JACKSON SPOTTER JA10 REPORTS 1/2
INCH HAIL AND .30 IN RAIN
IN 10 MINUTES.Local storm report, Aug 6, 4:36 PM PST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
536 PM PDT WED AUG 06 2003
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0534 PM MEDFORD OR
08/06/03 JACKSON DIANE SANDLER REPORTS THE
INTERSECTION OF MCANDREWS
AND BIDDLE FLOODED WITH
THE WATER UP TO THE TOPS
OF CAR TIRES.Local storm report, Aug 6, 5:16 PM PST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
616 PM PDT WED AUG 06 2003
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0614 PM OR .5 INCH HAIL
08/06/03 JACKSON SPOTTER JA05 4N OF EAGLE
POINT REPORTED 1/2 INCH
HAIL.Local storm report, Aug 6, 5:51 PM PST, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
651 PM PDT WED AUG 06 2003
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0650 PM TALENT OR .5 INCH HAIL
08/06/03 JACKSON SPOTTER JA41 REPORTS 1/2
IN HAIL AND MDT-HVY RAIN.
GUST OF WIND TO 45 MPH.
ESTIMATES ABOUT A HALF
INCH OF RAIN SO FAR.Local storm report, Aug 6, 6:21 PM PST, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
721 PM PDT WED AUG 06 2003
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0718 PM MEDFORD OR
08/06/03 JACKSON SPOTTER JA58 IN SOUTHEAST
MEDFORD REPORTS .25 IN
RAIN IN 25 MINUTES AND A
TOTAL OF A HALF INCH. 2FT
SURGE OF WATER JUST CAME
DOWN LAZY CREEK.
0720 PM TALENT OR
08/06/03 JACKSON SPOTTER JA41 REPORTS .73
INCH OF RAIN SO FAR.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
- Flash Flood and Hail in Georgia, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in New Hampshire, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, August 6 to 7, 2003
- Wildfire in Hawaii, August 6, 2003
- Wildfire in Montana, August 6 to 24, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 6, 2003
- Flood in Ohio, August 6, 2003
- Tornado in North Carolina, August 6, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Maine, August 6, 2003
- Flash Flooding in New York, August 6, 2003
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, 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: 5334499.