Hail, Eureka
- When
- July 20, 1:04 PM PST to 1:18 PM PST
- Where
- Eureka County, 2 mi SW of Eureka
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.483, -115.983
Hail in Nevada, July 20, 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 Elko, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 8:50 AM PST, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 8:50 AM PST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 950 AM PDT TUE JUL 20 2004 .SYNOPSIS...MONSOON MOISTURE WILL BRING ANOTHER ACTIVE WEATHER DAY TO CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEVADA TODAY. DRIER AIR HAS WORKED INTO NORTHWEST NEVADA FOR A DECREASE IN ACTIVITY. THIS DRIER AIR WILL WORK INTO CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEVADA WEDNESDAY FOR A DECREASE IN ACTIVITY THE REST OF THE WEEK BUT STILL ENOUGH MOISTURE FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. && .DISCUSSION...SOUNDING THIS MORNING AT EKO VERY UNSTABLE WITH LIFTED INDICES OF -6C AND CAPE OF NEAR 1300J/KG. PW VALUES NEAR 3/4 INCH. SOME DRYING HAS MOVED INTO WRN NV BUT RNO SOUNDING STILL HAS PW VALUE OF .66 INCH THIS MORNING. ETA40 SHOWS RATHER UNSTABLE AIR MASS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS CENTRAL AND NE NV WITH LIFTED INDICES BULLSEYE OF -4C OVER NE NV. ALSO HIGH THETA-E AIR REMAINS IN PLACE OVER NE AND CNTRL NV WITH VALUES NEAR 340 C. ALSO ANOTHER WEAK IMPULSE IN THE FLOW HAS ALREADY CAUSED CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT THIS MORNING OVER NRN LANDER/NRN EUREKA AND ELKO COUNTIES. FOR THIS REASON UPDATED GRIDS/TEST FORECASTS TO UP THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE TO SCATTERED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...EXCEPT IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY WHERE ENOUGH DRY AIR HAS WORKED INTO THE AREA TO KEEP COVERAGE TO ISOLATED. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && CEC
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
- Heat in Missouri, July 20 to 22, 2004
- Rip Current in New York, July 20, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Illinois, July 20, 2004
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 20, 2004
- Hail in South Dakota, July 20, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 20, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in New York, July 20, 2004
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 2004
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in New Mexico, July 20, 2004
- Heat in Illinois, July 20 to 22, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 20, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Maine, July 20, 2004
More
Every storm in Nevada in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, 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: 5432665.