Hail, Malheur
- When
- July 2, 7:47 PM MST
- Where
- Malheur County, Jordan Vly
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.967, -117.050
Hail in Oregon, July 2, 2006
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 Boise, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 1:45 PM MST, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 1:45 PM MST, 6 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 245 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 2006 .SHORT TERM...SHORT WAVE MOVING NORTHEAST OVER AREA SHOWS UP WELL ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. EXPECT FAIRLY BROAD AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS JUST LIKE YESTERDAY THOUGH RISK OF SEVERE STORMS IS SMALL. UPPER RIDGE LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BUILD OVER AREA BEHIND THIS WEAK SHORT WAVE WITH EVEN WARMER TEMPERATURES IN STORE FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY. WHILE EXTENT OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE LESS MONDAY AND TUESDAY THAN THIS EVENING...CANNOT DISCOUNT THEIR PRESENCE SO LEAVING ISOLATED THUNDER FOR EACH DAY. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...WITH UPPER RIDGE AXIS PUSHING EAST OF THE ROCKIES...THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST REMAINS IN SOUTHERLY FLOW THROUGH THURSDAY. MODELS PICK UP ON A FEATURE MOVING OUT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST FOR WED/THU. WITH EARLY SEASON MONSOONAL MOISTURE STILL IN PLACE THIS FEATURE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PUT DOWN SOME GOOD RAIN AMOUNTS...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. AS A RESULT OF EXTRA CLOUD COVER AND PRECIP HAVE PULLED BACK ON HIGH TEMPS IN EASTERN ZONES WED/THUR. NEXT FEATURE WILL BE SHORTWAVE TROUGH SWINGING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LATE THU/FRI. WHILE STILL SOME MODEL DISAGREEMENT ON TIMING OF THIS SYSTEM...THERE IS BETTER AGREEMENT ON ITS FORECAST PATH. LOOKS LIKE MAIN ENERGY WILL REMAIN TO THE NORTH OF CWA. AS FOR TIMING HAVE TRENDED TOWARD LESS AMPLIFIED GFS MODEL...WHICH BETTER FITS CLIMATOLOGY. THERE WILL BE SLIGHT RIDGING ON SATURDAY AHEAD OF ANOTHER SHORTWAVE WITH DRIER AIR ADVECTING INTO THE REGION BEGINNING FRIDAY NIGHT. THIS DRIER AIR WILL HELP TO LIMIT THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...HOWEVER WITH LINGERING MOISTURE OVER THEN CENTRAL MOUNTAINS HAVE KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THERE FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AS THE SHORTWAVE STARTS TO PUSH THROUGH THE REGION ON SUNDAY EVENING THERE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS AND THE MAGIC VALLEY. TEMPERATURES OVER THE WEEKEND WILL BE AROUND CLIMATOLOGY. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VALLEYS. BASES WILL REMAIN AROUND 14K FEET MSL WITH TOPS FROM 30K-45K FEET MSL THROUGH THIS EVENING. ALSO OUTFLOW FROM THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING WILL REACH 30-40MPH. VFR CONDITIONS WITH ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. && .BOI WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...NONE. OR...NONE. && WEATHER.GOV/BOISE SHORT TERM...PRF LONG TERM...DF/DG AVIATION.....DG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 4:46 AM MST, 15 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 546 AM MDT SUN JUL 2 2006 IDZ011>016-028>030-ORZ061>064-031200- WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-LOWER TREASURE VALLEY ID-BOISE MOUNTAINS- UPPER TREASURE VALLEY-SOUTHWEST HIGHLANDS-WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY- CAMAS PRAIRIE-OWYHEE MOUNTAINS-SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY- HARNEY COUNTY-BAKER COUNTY-MALHEUR COUNTY- LOWER TREASURE VALLEY OR- 446 AM PDT SUN JUL 2 2006 /546 AM MDT SUN JUL 2 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO...SOUTHWEST IDAHO...WEST CENTRAL IDAHO...NORTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHEAST OREGON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 2, 4:22 PM MST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID
522 PM MDT SUN JUL 02 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0355 PM HAIL 8 S JORDAN VALLEY 42.86N 117.05W
07/02/2006 E0.25 INCH MALHEUR OR LAW ENFORCEMENT
0400 PM HAIL 3 E NARROWS 43.27N 118.90W
07/02/2006 E0.75 INCH HARNEY OR TRAINED SPOTTER
0405 PM HAIL 3 E NARROWS 43.27N 118.90W
07/02/2006 E1.75 INCH HARNEY OR TRAINED SPOTTER
0430 PM HAIL HINES 43.57N 119.08W
07/02/2006 E0.88 INCH HARNEY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT
0431 PM HAIL HINES 43.57N 119.08W
07/02/2006 E0.88 INCH HARNEY OR TRAINED SPOTTER
0438 PM HAIL HINES 43.57N 119.08W
07/02/2006 E0.75 INCH HARNEY OR TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
DFISHLERLocal storm report, Jul 2, 5:52 PM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID
652 PM MDT SUN JUL 02 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0355 PM HAIL 8 S JORDAN VALLEY 42.86N 117.05W
07/02/2006 E0.25 INCH MALHEUR OR LAW ENFORCEMENT
0400 PM HAIL 3 E NARROWS 43.27N 118.90W
07/02/2006 E0.75 INCH HARNEY OR TRAINED SPOTTER
0405 PM HAIL 3 E NARROWS 43.27N 118.90W
07/02/2006 E1.75 INCH HARNEY OR TRAINED SPOTTER
0430 PM HAIL HINES 43.57N 119.08W
07/02/2006 E0.88 INCH HARNEY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT
0431 PM HAIL HINES 43.57N 119.08W
07/02/2006 E0.88 INCH HARNEY OR TRAINED SPOTTER
0438 PM HAIL HINES 43.57N 119.08W
07/02/2006 E0.75 INCH HARNEY OR TRAINED SPOTTER
0530 PM HAIL 11 W BURNS 43.57N 119.29W
07/02/2006 E1.00 INCH HARNEY OR TRAINED SPOTTER
0635 PM FLASH FLOOD 7 NNW UNITY 44.53N 118.22W
07/02/2006 BAKER OR TRAINED SPOTTER
WATER OVER THE ROADS AND STANDING WATER OUT IN GRASS
FIELDS.
&&
DFISHLERThe radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:48 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 Winds in Virginia, July 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 2, 2006
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, July 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 2, 2006
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Ohio, July 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 2, 2006
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in New York, July 2, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 2, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 2, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 2, 2006
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, July 2006
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: 5525081.