A thunderstorm that formed along the Alaska Range blew up into a severe thunderstorm producing 1 inch hail as it moved through Paxson.
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A thunderstorm that formed along the Alaska Range blew up into a severe thunderstorm producing 1 inch hail as it moved through Paxson.
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 Anchorage, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 18, 11:00 AM AKST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA 500 PM ADT MON JUN 18 2007 .MODEL DISCUSSION... ALL MODELS SIMILAR IN PHASE AND AMPLITUDE THROUGH 60 HOURS. GFS ENSEMBLES ARE REMARKABLY CLOSE IN HANDLING NEARLY STATIONARY RIDGE IN THE CENTRAL ALEUTIANS IN THE BERING THROUGH 168 HOURS. HIGH CONFIDENCE IN THE 12Z GFS RUN AS UNCERTAINTY SEEMS TO BE DECREASING. .ANALYSIS AND UPPER LEVELS... MAJOR FEATURES ARE THE RIDGE IN THE CENTRAL BERING AND ALEUTIANS AND THE CUT OFF HIGH DROPPING SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE INTERIOR. DEFORMATION AREA MOVING WEST INTO SOUTHWEST ALASKA WEAKENING. SECOND AREA FROM THE EASTERN ALEUTIANS STRETCHING ACROSS BRISTOL BAY INTO THE LOWER KUSKOKWIM STILL FORCING UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION AND LIGHT PRECIPITATION JUST TO THE EAST OF THE UPPER TROUGH. NORTHWEST FLOW ACROSS ALMOST THE ENTIRE BERING EAST OF ADAK WITH SIGNIFICANT LOW STRATUS AND FOG. .SHORT TERM FORECAST... UPPER RIDGE WILL REALLY DRY THE INLAND AREAS OUT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. SUBSIDENCE AND DOWNSLOPE OFF THE MOUNTAINS WILL LEAD TO WHAT WILL LIKELY BE THE WARMEST MAX TEMPERATURES OF THE YEAR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. CONVECTION WILL BE SURPRESSED BY THE RIDGE...CONFINED TO WESTERN KUSKOKWIM AND SOUTHWEST BY WEDNESDAY. NO RELIEF FOR STRATUS AND FOG IN THE BERING AND ALEUTIANS. .LONG TERM FORECAST... RIDGE IN THE BERING AND ALEUTIANS WILL START TO BREAK DOWN BY THE END OF THE WEEK PHASING WITH A TROUGH DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST ALASKA. THAT WILL SHIFT FLOW ACROSS THE AREA AND BRING ABOUT MORE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION. SHOULD FINALLY SEE A BREAKUP OF THE BERING SEA STRATUS SHIELD. .AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. FIRE WEATHER...NONE. CAS JUN 07
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK
301 PM ADT MON JUN 18 2007
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0230 PM HAIL PAXSON 63.09N 145.61W
06/18/2007 E1.00 INCH AK OFFICIAL NWS OBS
HAIL WITH MAXIMUM SIZE OF ONE INCH REPORTED IN A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM. HAIL AN INCH DEEP ON GROUND.
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LUDWIGThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail reported by the Paxson observer. Maximum size was 1 inch in diameter and also hail accumulated 1 inch on the ground.
The hail size for this storm is estimated based upon storms within the same complex that had hail up to 1 inch in diameter.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, June 2007
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: 27192, 27704.