Hail, Liberty
- When
- May 29, 4:10 PM MST
- Where
- Liberty County, 7 mi N of Chester
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 48.621, -110.950
A thunderstorm dropped 0.75 inch diameter hail at Chester 7N.
Hail in Montana, May 29, 2008
Severe thunderstorms developed over portions of North Central Montana during the early evening hours of the 29th. Hail to the size of pennies was reported.
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
- 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 TFX wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms developed over portions of North Central Montana during the early evening hours of the 29th. Hail to the size of pennies was reported.
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 Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 29, 1:46 PM MST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 1:46 PM MST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 246 PM MDT THU MAY 29 2008 .DISCUSSION... TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY...AN UNSETTLED UPPER LEVEL PATTERN WILL BE PRESENT OVER THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE SHORT TERM PERIODS...RESULTING FROM A DEVELOPING CLOSED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. WEAK PRECIPITATION PRODUCING FEATURES ARE ANTICIPATED TO EXIST WITHIN THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW AROUND THIS CLOSED LOW AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION...AS WELL AS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...APPEARS TO BE GREATEST DURING THIS EVENING AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE IS ANTICIPATED TO BRIEFLY DRY OUT THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT THRU MIDDAY SATURDAY...HOWEVER THE NEXT PRECIPITATION PRODUCING FEATURE WILL LIKELY REACH THE FORECAST AREA BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO BE NEAR THE SEASONAL AVERAGE...WHILE OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE SEASONAL AVERAGE DURING THE SHORT TERM FORECAST PERIODS AS WELL. ZUMPFE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...A TYPICAL SPRING PATTERN WILL CONTINUE WITH GENERALLY UNSETTLED WEATHER. WEAK RIDGING EARLY IN THE PERIOD OVER EASTERN MONTANA WILL ALLOW AN UNSTABLE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT TO CONTINUE OVER THE AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. BY MONDAY THE FLOW ALOFT BECOMES MORE ZONAL BUT WEAK DISTURBANCES EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN NEAR SEASONAL AVERAGES. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...MODELS ARE GOING FOR A RATHER MOIST AND UNSTABLE WEST TO SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...BETWEEN A WEAK HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE EAST OF MONTANA AND A PACIFIC LONG WAVE TROUGH. THUS...WILL GO FOR ISOLATED/SCATTERED SHOWERS...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN SEASONAL AVERAGE. WILLIAMSON DC && .AVIATION... UPDATED 1725Z. SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING MOISTURE TO THE AREA. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL AGAIN BECOME UNSTABLE DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND CONTINUING INTO THE EARLY EVENING. VFR CONDITIONS PREVAIL WITH MVFR CONDITIONS IN THE VICINITY OF SHOWERS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS. && .HYDROLOGY... HYDROLOGIC CONCERNS CONTINUE TO BE PRESENT IN CASCADE COUNTY AND LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY...WITH THE SUN AND DEARBORN RIVERS STILL RUNNING AT OR NEAR FLOOD STAGE. AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THESE TWO COUNTIES THROUGH AT LEAST MIDDAY FRIDAY. ZUMPFE .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GTF 48 70 46 73 / 30 30 20 20 CTB 48 69 45 72 / 30 30 20 20 HLN 46 71 45 75 / 40 30 20 20 BZN 42 67 42 72 / 50 40 20 20 WEY 35 60 36 65 / 40 30 20 20 DLN 40 64 40 70 / 50 20 20 20 HVR 49 74 48 77 / 40 40 20 20 LWT 44 68 45 71 / 40 40 20 20 && .TFX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AREAL FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR CASCADE AND LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTIES. && SHORT TERM...ZUMPFE LONG TERM...EMANUEL/WILLIAMSON DC AVIATION...ZELZER WEATHER.GOV/GREATFALLS
Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 9:55 AM MST, 6 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 1055 AM MDT THU MAY 29 2008 MTZ012-014-301200- CASCADE-CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LEWIS AND CLARK- 1055 AM MDT THU MAY 29 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA AND SOUTHWEST MONTANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MONTANA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MONTANA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MONTANA INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MTZ008>011-013-015-044>055-301200- BEAVERHEAD-NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT-EASTERN GLACIER-HILL- CHOUTEAU-MADISON-TOOLE-LIBERTY-EASTERN PONDERA-BLAINE- SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT-EASTERN TETON-JUDITH BASIN-FERGUS- JEFFERSON-BROADWATER-MEAGHER-GALLATIN- 1055 AM MDT THU MAY 29 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA...NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA AND SOUTHWEST MONTANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTH CENTRAL...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHWEST MONTANA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE OVER NORTH CENTRAL...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHWEST MONTANA INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 29, 3:43 PM MST, 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
443 PM MDT THU MAY 29 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0410 PM HAIL 7 N CHESTER 48.61N 110.97W
05/29/2008 E0.75 INCH LIBERTY MT PUBLIC
&&
ACOHENThe radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:59 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Chouteau
- When
- May 29, 5:00 PM MST
- Where
- Chouteau County, 7 mi SW of Warrick
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 47.998, -110.727
A thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Warrick 7SW.
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 29 to 30, 2008
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Iowa, May 29 to 30, 2008
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Nebraska, May 29 to 30, 2008
- Tornado in Kansas, May 29, 2008
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Nebraska, May 29 to 31, 2008
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in South Dakota, May 29, 2008
- Wildfire in Florida, May 29 to 31, 2008
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 29, 2008
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 29, 2008
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 29, 2008
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Nebraska, May 29, 2008
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Iowa, May 29 to 31, 2008
More
Every storm in Montana in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, May 2008
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: 93564, 93565.