Hail, Daniels
- When
- July 30, 4:15 PM MST
- Where
- Daniels County, 1 mi ESE of Flaxville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 48.794, -105.150
Hail in Montana, July 30, 2008
A slow-moving cold front touched off a lone severe thunderstorm.
Where it happened
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- 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 happened
The episode as NWS GGW wrote it up.
A slow-moving cold front touched off a lone severe thunderstorm.
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 30, 2:11 PM MST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:11 PM MST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 311 PM MDT WED JUL 30 2008 .SHORT TERM...FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY... UPPER TROF LIFTING ACROSS CENTRAL MONTANA WILL PUSH FRONT OUT OF EASTERN MONTANA AND INTO NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN THE UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THE UPPER TROF. HIGH PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE REGION FOR THURSDAY AS THE RIDGE BEGINS TO REBOUND TO THE WEST. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL SLIGHTLY FOR THURSDAY WITH THE TROF MOVING OUT OF THE REGION. THE RIDGE MOVES OVER MONTANA ON FRIDAY...TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN WARM. EBERT .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY... 12Z MODELS CONTINUE TO INDICATE AN UPPER TROUGH REMAINING OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. BY EARLY NEXT WEEK THE UPPER TROUGH SWINGS THROUGH THE REGION WITH MODELS SHOWING SOME CONSISTENCY WITH SURFACE LOW DEVELOPMENT TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE LOCAL FORECAST AREA WITH UPPER JET SUPPORT OVER THE CWA. IF THIS PATTERN HOLDS TRUE THIS WOULD BRING A DECENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...WILL STAY CONSERVATIVE WITH POPS AT THIS TIME AS THIS TYPE OF PATTERN IS ATYPICAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. AFTER THIS...A COOLER CANADIAN AIRMASS SINKS SOUTHWARD AS THE UPPER TROUGH DEPARTS AND WEAK RIDGING DEVELOPS OVER THE AREA. TEMPERATURES SHOULD TREND FROM NEAR TO ABOVE SEASONAL AVERAGES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD TO NEAR TO BELOW NORMAL BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. AJZ PREVIOUS LONG TERM DISCUSSION... THE UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES TO BE A DIFFICULT ONE FOR THE MODELS TO HANDLE. THERE IS A TREND...INCLUDING THE LATEST GFS AND CMC...TO KEEP THE MAIN PART OF THE TROUGH OVER THE PACIFIC NW LONGER...WITH NE MT IN A SW FLOW ALOFT AHEAD OF IT. THE MAIN TROUGH THEN MOVES ENE GIVING THE BEST CHANCE OF ANY THUNDERSTORMS WITH IT ABOUT MON. MODELS HAVE BEEN VARYING QUITE A BIT WITH THE INTENSITY AND HOW MUCH IT WILL INFLUENCE OUR AREA AS WELL. BETWEEN FRI NIGHT AND MON...IT STILL APPEARS THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS SAT/SAT NIGHT. A BROAD LOW PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE CONTINUES OVER E MT DURING THE ENTIRE TIME. TEMPS REMAIN MAINLY 85-95 RANGE WHICH IS ABOUT NORMAL FOR THE PEAK OF SUMMER. THE COOLEST AIRMASS DURING THE PERIOD FOLLOWS BEHIND THIS UPPER TROUGH TUE AND WED AS THICKNESSES DROP TO THE 560S DM. AT THE SAME TIME THE TYPICALLY LARGE MID-SUMMER HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER MUCH OF THE U.S...IS TRYING TO RIDGE N-NW INTO MT. SIMONSEN && .AVIATION... SCATTERED CLOUDS AT OR ABOVE 10K FT WILL LINGER INTO THIS EVENING BEFORE CLEARING OVERNIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING WITH NOT MUCH MORE THAN A BRIEF PERIOD OF RAIN AND A GUSTY ERRATIC WIND. A WEST WIND OF 15 TO 20KT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL DIMINISH TO LESS THAN 10KT AFTER SUNSET...AND THEN INCREASE TO 10 TO 15KT THURSDAY. AJZ && .GLASGOW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WEATHER.GOV/GLASGOW
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:14 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Daniels
- When
- July 30, 4:20 PM MST
- Where
- Daniels County, Flaxville
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 48.800, -105.170
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
- Flash Flood and Hail in North Dakota, July 30 to 31, 2008
- Tornado in Maryland, July 30, 2008
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 30, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 30 to 31, 2008
- Tornado in West Virginia, July 30, 2008
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Kentucky, July 30, 2008
- Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, July 30, 2008
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 30, 2008
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 30, 2008
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 30, 2008
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 30, 2008
- Hail in South Dakota, July 30, 2008
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: 111751, 122234.