Hail, Malheur
- When
- May 3, 8:47 PM MST to 8:57 PM MST
- Where
- Malheur County, Ontario
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.033, -116.967
Hail in Oregon, May 3, 2003
Strong Thunderstorms moving eastward across northern Malheur county produced quarter size hail in ontario.
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 BOI wrote it up.
Strong Thunderstorms moving eastward across northern Malheur county produced quarter size hail in ontario.
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 Boise, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 3, 7:54 PM MST, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 7:54 PM MST, 53 minutes before
SOUTHWEST IDAHO/SOUTHEAST OREGON AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO 854 PM SAT MAY 03 2003 EARLY EVENING IR SAPIX SHOW CONVECTIVELY UNSTABLE CHARACTER OF AIR MASS WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS STILL FIRING OVER OUR CWA. SINCE 01Z ACTIVITY HAS DECREASED EXCEPT FOR A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS STILL GOING IN NRN MALHEUR COUNTY NEWD TO WASHINGTON COUNTY. FURTHER WEST IN OREGON A N/S COLD FRONT IS RAPIDLY TAKING SHAPE AND MOVING EAST. FRONT EXPECTED TO WRN IDAHO BORDER 12Z AND TREASURE VALLEY ABOUT SUNRISE...MAGIC VALLEY MID MORNING. FRONT WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH FOR THUNDERSTORMS EVEN IN THE MORNING. CURRENT FORECASTS IN GOOD SHAPE...MAIN CONCERN IS CURRENT THUNDERSTORMS IN MALHEUR COUNTY. .BOI...NONE. = L COLIN
Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 5:00 AM MST, 15 hours 47 minutes before
IDZ011>016-028>030-ORZ061>064-041200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO 600 AM MDT SAT MAY 3 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST IDAHO AND SOUTHEAST OREGON. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:47 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
- Hail in North Carolina, May 3, 2003
- Hail in North Carolina, May 3, 2003
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 3, 2003
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 3, 2003
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 3, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, May 3, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 3, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 3, 2003
- Hail in South Carolina, May 3, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 3, 2003
- Hail in North Carolina, May 3, 2003
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, May 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: 5378320.