Hail, Butte
- When
- June 10, 11:55 PM PST
- Where
- Butte County, 6 mi S of Durham
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.567, -121.800
Hail in California, June 10, 2005
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 Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 8:03 PM PST, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 8:03 PM PST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 900 PM PDT FRI JUNE 10 2005 .DISCUSSION... A SHORT WAVE MOVED SOUTHEAST DOWN THE BACK SIDE OF THE UPPER TROUGH OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS TODAY. IT INITIATED ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF SHASTA AND LASSEN COUNTIES AND WEST SLOPES OF THE SIERRA NEVADA RANGE. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE ALONG AND EAST OF THE SIERRA NEVADA CREST. A COOPERATIVE OBSERVER JUST NORTH OF LAKE SHASTA REPORTED 1 INCH OF RAIN IN 1/2 HOUR IN A THUNDERSTORM AROUND 6 PM. MOST RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE LIGHT ...ONLY A FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH DUE TO THE SHOWERS RAPID MOVEMENT. THE SHOWERS SPILLED INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND ADJACENT VALLEY LOCATIONS DURING THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. A BAND OF SHOWERS ARE INTENSIFYING IN A SURFACE WIND CONVERGENCE ZONE JUST SOUTH OF RED BLUFF. SOUTH WINDS PRODUCED BY A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE CENTRAL SACRAMENTO VALLEY ARE INTERACTING WITH THE PREVAILING NORTHWEST FLOW. RED BLUFF WINDS 31007KT AND CHICO 18008KT. EXPECT ALL ACTIVITY TO DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. THE TROUGH IS FORECAST TO SHIFT EAST AS THE SHORT WAVE DROPS SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA LATER TONIGHT. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE EASTERN PACIFIC BRINGING DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THROUGH THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEK. THE NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN OCCURS MID WEEK AS A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. UNSETTLED CONDITIONS COULD PERSISTING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. PFJ .AVIATION... UPR SHRTWV MOVG THRU ATTM WITH ISOLD MVFR CONDS IN SHRA/TSRA TIL 06Z. CSTL STRATUS WITH AREAS HYR TRRN OBSCD IN MVFR AND ISOLD IFR CONDS TIL 19Z. VFR CONDS ELSW THRU RMNDR OF FCST PD IN DRY NW FLOW ALF. PCH && .STO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 6:00 AM PST, 17 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 700 AM PDT FRI JUN 10 2005 CAZ013>019-063-064-066>069-111400- SHASTA LAKE AREA/NORTHERN SHASTA COUNTY- BURNEY BASIN/EASTERN SHASTA COUNTY-NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY- CENTRAL SACRAMENTO VALLEY-SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY- CARQUINEZ STRAIT AND DELTA-NORTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MOUNTAINS SOUTHWESTERN SHASTA TO NORTHERN LAKE COUNTIES- CLEAR LAKE/SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-MOTHERLODE- EAST FOOTHILLS/NORTH SACRAMENTO VALLEY- WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY/LASSEN PARK-WEST SLOPE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA- 700 AM PDT FRI JUN 10 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT (LOWER CASE): HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/STO CRS
The radar
The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:57 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
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 10, 2005
- Tropical Storm in Florida, June 10 to 11, 2005
- Tropical Storm in Alabama, June 10 to 11, 2005
- Flash Flood in New Hampshire, June 10, 2005
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, June 10, 2005
- Tropical Storm in Florida, June 10 to 11, 2005
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, June 10 to 11, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in New York, June 10, 2005
- Lightning Strikes in Missouri, June 10, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 10, 2005
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 10, 2005
- Flash Flood in New York, June 10, 2005
More
Every storm in California in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in California, June 2005
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: 5470611.