Hail, Phillips
- When
- July 3, 2:20 PM MST to 2:40 PM MST
- Where
- Phillips County, 20 mi S of Dodson
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.117, -108.233
Hail in Montana, July 3, 2004
2 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
- 2
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 Glasgow, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 3, 1:30 PM MST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 1:30 PM MST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 230 PM MDT SAT JUL 3 2004 .SHORT TERM...FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA TODAY THROUGH MONDAY... TODAY/S QUIET WEATHER WILL TURN WET AND STORMY TONIGHT AND LAST OFF AND ON THROUGH THE PERIOD. THE MODELS WERE IN GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH SOME SLIGHT DIFFERENCES SHOWING UP SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATING A STRONG SHORTWAVE SPINNING OVER WESTERN CANADA. THIS SYSTEM WILL BE THE ONE TO WATCH OVER THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS AS IT DROPS SOUTHEAST INTO MONTANA. LOWERING HEIGHTS ARE SPAWNING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO OUR WEST. THESE STORMS ARE SPREADING EAST AND ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE WESTERN ZONES THIS EVENING. THIS AREA SHOULD LIFT NORTHEAST LATER TONIGHT...PROBABLY INTO THE NE ZONES. HAVE INCREASED POPS ON THIS NEW THINKING. SOME STORMS THIS EVENING COULD BE SEVERE AS WIND PROFILES LOOK FAVORABLE...BUT WILL NOT INCLUDE THIS IN THE ZONE FORECAST WORDING. AN ASSOCIATED SURFACE INVERTED TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TONIGHT AND HELP FOCUS LIFT IN THE WESTERN ZONES THIS EVENING...WITH THE MIDDLE AND UPPER LEVEL WINDS ALLOWING THE STORMS TO MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST. THE INVERTED TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY WEAKEN THROUGH SUNDAY AS A COLD SURFACE HIGH PRESSES SOWN FROM THE NORTH. AT THE SAME TIME...THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL BE SPINNING THROUGH THE AREA...ALLOWING FOR SOME INSTABILITY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. THE UPPER UPPER LOW GRADUALLY PULLS OUT TO OUR EAST MONDAY WITH HIGH PRESSURE SETTLING IN. THIS SHOULD STABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE WHERE SHOWERS SHOULD GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BY THE EVENING. WITH THE ABUNDANT CLOUDCOVER AND COLD AIR ADVECTION...TEMPERATURES WILL BE CHILLY FOR THIS DAY. OF NOTE...THE RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR GLASGOW IS 61 DEGREES (SET IN 1993). NOTED THAT ETA AND GFS WERE DIGGING THIS SYSTEM A BIT FURTHER SOUTH THAN PREVIOUS RUNS FOR MONDAY...SO LATER SHIFTS MAY FOLLOW SUIT WITH WEATHER AS WE DRAW CLOSER. JAMBA .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY... MODELS ARE IN GENERALLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE UPPER PATTERN THAT WILL BE MORE ACTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE THAN USUAL FOR EARLY JULY. HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES ARE MOSTLY BELOW NORMAL. UPPER TROUGH DEPARTS WITH A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS MON NIGHT WITH A SHORTWAVE UPPER RIDGE BRINGING A DRY DAY FOR TUESDAY. MODELS BRING A STRONG CLOSED UPPER LOW ESE FROM THE GULF OF ALASKA AND INTO SOUTHERN CANADA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THIS...EXCEPT LAST NIGHTS CMC...WHICH IS MUCH FURTHER NORTH. LATEST HPC DISCUSSION LIKES ECMWF AND GFS ENSEMBLES...GIVING GOOD CONFIDENCE TO THIS UPPER LOW. THE LEADING STRONG COLD FRONT ARRIVES WED NIGHT AND HAVE RAISED POPS. WITH UPPER LOW CENTERED JUST NORTH OF OUR AREA...AND MODELS INDICATING DOWNSLOPE DRYING FROM WESTERLIES...WILL KEEP ALL POPS IN CHANCE CATEGORY...BUT HAVE RAISED A LITTLE AS WELL AS LOWERED TEMPS. A WEAKENING...LAGGING UPPER TROUGH KEEPS LOW POPS INTO FRIDAY...THEN A BUILDING UPPER RIDGE BRINGS DRYING AND WARMING FOR SATURDAY. SIMONSEN && .GGW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:19 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Phillips
- When
- July 3, 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Phillips County, 20 mi S of Dodson
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.117, -108.233
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 Strikes in Florida, July 3, 2004
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- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 3, 2004
- Tornado in Ohio, July 3, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in South Dakota, July 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 3, 2004
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 3, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 3, 2004
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 3, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 3, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 3, 2004
More
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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: 5414763, 5414762.