Hail in Wyoming, June 2, 2008

Name: Hail in Wyoming, June 2, 2008
Start: 2008-06-02T15:50
End: 2008-06-02T15:50
Location: Wyoming

June 2, 2008 · NWS UNR · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A severe thunderstorm produced large hail near Lightning Flat.

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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 happened

The episode as NWS UNR wrote it up.

A severe thunderstorm produced large hail near Lightning Flat.

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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 2, 1:45 PM MST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 1:45 PM MST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
245 PM MDT MON JUN 2 2008

.DISCUSSION...LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS HAS LOW PRESSURE OVER
NORTHEASTERN WY AND EASTERN CO. A WARM FRONT STRETCHES EASTWARD FROM
THE CO LOW INTO NEB AND INTO NORTHEAST KS. ANOTHER WEAK AND NEARLY
STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS LOCATED ACROSS NORTHERN SD AND INTO
EASTERN MT.

UPPER LEVEL ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SHOW WEST-SOUTHWEST FLOW ACROSS
THE ROCKIES AND THE PLAINS REGION. FAIRLY STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET
STRETCHES ACROSS UT...WY...SD...AND NORTHERN NEB. IMBEDDED SHORTWAVE
ENERGY IN THE FLOW WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OR TWO OF STORMS THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STORMS ARE NOW DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHEAST
MT...FAR NORTHWEST SD...AND THE HILLS. SEVERE POTENTIAL STILL LOOKS
GOOD FOR MOST OF THE AREA...WITH A LITTLE BETTER POTENTIAL FROM
THE BLACK HILLS AREA THROUGH FAR SOUTHERN SD...WHERE INCREASING LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN CAPE VALUES EXCEEDING 1000 J/KG
LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SHEAR WILL ALSO BE STRONGEST
ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN SD WHERE SOUTH-SOUTHEASTERLY LOW LEVEL WINDS
WILL BE PICKING UP A BIT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LARGE
HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS FROM SEVERE
STORMS...BUT CANNOT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO ACROSS
NORTHEAST WY...THE BLACK HILLS AREA...AND SOUTHERN SD IN CLOSER
VICINITY TO SURFACE LOW.

THERE IS SOME THREAT FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING...BUT STORM
MOTION...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE
AREA...SHOULD BE SUFFICIENTLY FAST ENOUGH TO KEEP THE THREAT
RELATIVELY LOW. HOWEVER...THERE ARE A FEW LOCATIONS ACROSS THE AREA
THAT HAVE A LOW TOLERANCE FOR PROLONGED HEAVY RAIN AT THIS
POINT...SO WILL HAVE TO CLOSELY MONITOR THAT THREAT.

UNSETTLED PATTERN WILL CONTINUE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE AS FLOW
ALOFT REMAINS FROM THE WEST-SOUTHWEST. THIS WILL BRING DAILY CHANCES
FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEK. THE COVERAGE ON
TUESDAY IS LIKELY TO BE MORE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED IN NATURE...
ESPECIALLY BY LATER IN THE DAY...AS MAIN WAVE SHIFTS EAST OF THE
AREA AND SOME DRIER AIR FILTERS IN FOR A BRIEF TIME. CHANCES FOR
SEVERE WX ON TUESDAY WILL BE VERY MINIMAL AS COOL FRONT PASSES
THROUGH EARLY IN THE DAY AND INSTABILITY DECREASES. HIGHS ON TUESDAY
WILL BE IN THE 60S AND LOWER 70S.

CHANCES FOR PCPN WILL INCREASE AGAIN LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND
WEDNESDAY AS STRONGER DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA. MODELS
SHOWING SOME UNCERTAINTY WITH REGARD TO MAIN TRACK OF WAVE...WHICH
WILL INFLUENCE WHERE BETTER CHANCES WILL BE. FOR NOW WILL KEEP
CHANCE TO LIKELY POPS ACROSS THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
NIGHT. THERE IS SOME THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER...ESPECIALLY EAST OF
THE BLACK HILLS LATER WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY EVENING...AS ANOTHER
FRONTAL BOUNDARY SLOWLY CROSSES THIS AREA. HIGHS WEDNESDAY WILL
MOSTLY BE IN THE 60S...WITH CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER AROUND.

EXTENDED...A COUPLE OF BROAD UPPER TROUGHS CROSSING THE AREA WILL
LEAD TO CONTINUED UNSETTLED WEATHER THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH A
NEAR DAILY CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE BEST CHANCE OF
WIDESPREAD RAIN WILL BE ON THURSDAY...AS THE FIRST UPPER LOW CROSSES
THE NORTHERN PLAINS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER THAN NORMAL BOTH
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

&&

.AVIATION...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS
AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS. VFR CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE TO MVFR WITH AREAS OF
IFR CIGS/VSBYS FROM LATE THIS EVENING UNTIL LATE TUESDAY MORNING.
VFR CONDITIONS ARE THEN EXPECTED THROUGH TUESDAY AFTN WITH ANOTHER
CHANCE OF AFTN/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS.

&&

.UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
WY...NONE.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 5:08 AM MST, 10 hours 42 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
608 AM MDT MON JUN 2 2008

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-031300-
BENNETT-BUTTE-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-HAAKON-
HARDING-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-JACKSON-MELLETTE-NORTHEASTERN CROOK-
NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-
NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-PERKINS-RAPID CITY-
SHANNON-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS-
SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-TODD-TRIPP-
WESTERN CROOK-WESTON-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-ZIEBACH-
608 AM MDT (708 AM CDT) MON JUN 2 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN
ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA TODAY. THERE IS
A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND
EVENING HOURS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS...BUT A TORNADIC
THUNDERSTORM IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF
SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ADDITIONAL WEATHER DISTURBANCES WILL CROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS
THROUGH SUNDAY...BRINGING A DAILY CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:57 PM MST, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
357 PM MDT MON JUN 02 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0320 PM     TORNADO          1 WNW GILLETTE          44.30N 105.52W
06/02/2008                   CAMPBELL           WY   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AT 320 PM MDT.

&&

LCZEPYHA

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:18 PM MST, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
418 PM MDT MON JUN 02 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0400 PM     HAIL             4 SE ZEONA              45.15N 102.86W
06/02/2008  E1.75 INCH       PERKINS            SD   PUBLIC

&&

LCZEPYHA

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:20 PM MST, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
420 PM MDT MON JUN 02 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0350 PM     TSTM WND GST     13 E HOOVER             45.11N 103.00W
06/02/2008  E85.00 MPH       BUTTE              SD   PUBLIC

&&

LCZEPYHA

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:33 PM MST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
433 PM MDT MON JUN 02 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 PM     HAIL             13 ESE WRIGHT           43.71N 105.24W
06/02/2008  E1.00 INCH       CAMPBELL           WY   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

LCZEPYHA

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:41 PM MST, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
441 PM MDT MON JUN 02 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 PM     HAIL             10 ESE ZEONA            45.16N 102.71W
06/02/2008  E0.75 INCH       PERKINS            SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

LCZEPYHA

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 199 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:49 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Crook

When: June 2, 3:50 PM MST
Where: Crook County, Lightning Flat
Measured: 1.25 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 44.970, -105.050

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Wyoming in 2008 Every state in 2008 This day in weather history Warnings in Wyoming, June 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: 112918.