Hail, Custer
- When
- March 21, 8:20 PM MST
- Where
- Custer County, 0.84 mi NW of Miles City
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 46.410, -105.840
Hail in Montana, March 21, 2009
An isolated severe thunderstorm moved across Custer County.
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
- 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 BYZ wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm moved across Custer County.
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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 21, 2:38 PM MST, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 2:38 PM MST, 5 hours 42 minutes before
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The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 208 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:22 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
- Flooding in Minnesota, March 21 to 31, 2009
- Debris Flow and Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, March 21 to 23, 2009
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in California, March 21 to 22, 2009
- Winter Storm and High Wind in California, March 21 to 22, 2009
- Winter Storm in California, March 21 to 22, 2009
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in California, March 21 to 22, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, March 21, 2009
- Flooding in South Dakota, March 21 to 31, 2009
- Waterspouts in Gulf of Mexico, March 21, 2009
- Hail in Colorado, March 21, 2009
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Nevada, March 21 to 22, 2009
- Wildfire in U.S. Virgin Islands, March 21, 2009
More
Every storm in Montana in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, March 2009
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: 168855.