Hail, Idaho
- When
- July 25, 3:40 PM PST
- Where
- Idaho County, 2 mi NE of Grangeville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 45.950, -116.083
Hail in Idaho, July 25, 2004
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 Missoula, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 25, 12:46 PM PST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 12:46 PM PST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 246 PM MDT SUN JUL 25 2004 CORRECTED MOISTURE MOVEMENT 1ST PARAGRAPH .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...SUBTROPICAL PLUME OVER THE SOUTHERN ZONES IS MOVING NEARLY DUE EAST AS THE MODELS SUGGESTED. ALREADY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA...WITH BUILDING CUMULUS ACROSS SOUTHERN IDAHO COUNTY...LEMHI COUNTY...EXTREME SOUTHERN RAVALLI AND GRANITE COUNTIES...AND DEER LODGE AND SILVER BOW COUNTIES. THIS WILL BE THE FOCUS AREA FOR THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS EVENING...AND PRIMARILY LEMHI COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST MONTANA THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. NORTH OF THIS CU HAS BEEN SLOW TO DEVELOP. HOWEVER...STILL EXPECT THERMAL TROUGH TO SLIDE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING PROVIDING AMPLE INSTABILITY AND SOME LIFT. WILL THEREFORE LEAVE SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTH. THE WESTERLIES INVADE MORE OF THE AREA MONDAY...BUT COULD STILL SEE A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO OVER THE FAR SOUTH WHERE WE KEEP FLIRTING WITH REMNANT SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE. BREEZY WEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP... PARTICULARLY IN THE NORTH. DOUBT WE WILL SEE LAKE WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA GIVEN THE DUE WEST FLOW UP ABOVE 700MB. WILL BE A FIRE WEATHER CONCERN...ESPECIALLY IF ANY STRIKES ARE ABLE TO DEVELOP UP NORTH. HOWEVER...WITH STILL MUCH OF THE AREA SHOWING MODERATE FIRE DANGER...DO NOT ANTICIPATE A FIRE HIGHLIGHT. ON TUESDAY...THE MAIN UPPER LOW IS TRACKING WELL EAST INTO SASKATCHEWAN...BUT A NICE LITTLE SHORTWAVE DROPS OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. COULD SEE A FEW MOUNTAINS SHOWERS...BUT MAIN THREAT WILL BE NORTHERN CONTINENTAL DIVIDE AS UPSLOPE SHOWERS DEVELOP ON THE EAST SLOPES. MODEST COOLING TOMORROW BEHIND THE THERMAL TROUGH... AND AGAIN TUESDAY WITH THE WAVE FROM THE NORTH. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS CANADA TUESDAY NIGHT WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS ALONG THE DIVIDE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A RIDGE WILL BUILD ALONG THE WEST COAST WITH NORTHWEST TO NORTHEAST FLOW ACROSS THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT OF DEVELOPING A CUTOFF LOW OFF THE OREGON COAST LATE FRIDAY. THIS WOULD HELP MOVE THE RIDGE AXIS MORE OVER WESTERN MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO FOR WARMER TEMPERATURES. ALSO SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL DEVELOP WHICH COULD HELP BRING SOME MONSOONAL MOISTURE INTO THE AREA FOR NEXT WEEKEND. && .MSO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MT...NONE. ID...NONE. && SHORT TERM/WHITMORE LONG TERM/KOCH
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 201 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:39 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
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Texas, July 25 to 26, 2004
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 25 to 26, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Flood in New Mexico, July 25 to 26, 2004
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 25, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 25, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 25, 2004
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 25, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 25, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 25, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 25, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 25, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 25, 2004
More
Every storm in Idaho in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, July 2004
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: 5413393.