Hail, Middle Tanana Valley
- When
- June 8, 4:45 PM AKST to 5:30 PM AKST
- Where
- Middle Tanana Valley County, 9 mi E of Fairbanks
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 64.820, -147.564
Hail in Alaska, June 8, 2010
Hail reported by a Cooperative Observer, located just east of Fort Wainwright near Badger Road. 25 inches, but no damage was reported to property or to vehicles parked outside.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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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 AFG wrote it up.
Hail reported by a Cooperative Observer, located just east of Fort Wainwright near Badger Road. The observer estimated a size of up to 1.25 inches, but no damage was reported to property or to vehicles parked outside. No other supporting reports nearby. Observer also reported soft mushy character to the hail accumulation, so suspect the larger size estimate may have come from the freezing together of several stones. NWS adjusted diameter size downward to an estimated 0.75 inches.
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 Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 12:11 PM AKST, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 12:11 PM AKST, 4 hours 34 minutes before
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 111 PM AKDT TUE JUN 8 2010 CORRECTED FIRE WEATHER SECTION .DISCUSSION...AXIS OF A 500MB RIDGE EXTENDS FROM WESTERN BERING SEA TO THE BERING STRAIT AND THEN UP TO MACKENZIE BAY...THEREBY KEEPING THE BAROCLINIC FORCING OVER THE FORECAST AREA TO A MINIMUM. DOWN AT THE SURFACE...A BROAD AND DIFFUSE THERMAL TROUGH COVERS THE INTERIOR. MEANWHILE A VERTICALLY STACKED LOW CONTINUES TO SPIN ITS WHEELS JUST SOUTH OF THE ALASKA PENINSULA. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN ORIENTATION OF THESE SYNOPTIC-SCALE DRIVERS FOR NEXT COUPLE DAYS. THEN BY THE END OF THE WEEK...SHORT WAVE TROUGHS ORIGINATING WITH THE VERTICALLY STACKED LOW SOUTH OF THE ALASKA PENINSULA WILL EJECT NORTHWARD WITH THE RESULT OF LOWERING THE 500MB HEIGHTS OVER ALASKA'S INTERIOR AND NUDGING THE 500MB RIDGE EAST INTO CANADA. NORTH SLOPE...SATELLITE IMAGERY CONTINUES TO SHOW MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES...WILL KEEP THIS TREND IN THE FORECAST THROUGH TONIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY BEFORE BRINGING IN SOME DIURNAL FOG AGAIN. WIND SPEEDS QUITE LIGHT...AGAIN DUE TO THE RIDGE ALOFT. STRONGER WINDS IN THE FAR EASTERN ARCTIC HAVE DIMINISHED SOMEWHAT COMPARED TO YESTERDAY AS WEAK BUBBLE HIGH WEST OF BANKS ISLAND HAS SLOWLY WEAKENED. WEST COAST...RIDGING WILL KEEP PRECIP AWAY FOR REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. BIG ISSUE WILL BE COASTAL FOG...MAINLY FOR COASTAL AREAS NORTH OF THE BERING STRAIT. INLAND PORTIONS WILL HAVE MORE CONTINENTAL INFLUENCE AND SOME DIURNAL CONVECTION. RIDGING WILL ALSO FACILITATE A VERY WEAK SEA LEVEL PRESSURE GRADIENT AND WIND SPEEDS...SO NO MARINE ADVISORIES ARE EXPECTED FOR NEXT FEW DAYS. INTERIOR...THE BROAD NATURE OF THE THERMAL TROUGH SHOULD FACILITATE SURFACE CONVERGENCE ACROSS ALMOST THE ENTIRE INTERIOR. HOWEVER...NORTHEAST INTERIOR IS LACKING MOISTURE SO EXPECT NO THUNDER THERE. THIS IDEA IS NICELY SHOWN IN NAM AND GFS DEPICTIONS OF LIFTED INDEX TODAY AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY. THEN BY THURSDAY THE INSTABILITY BEINGS TO ADVANCE INTO THE NORTHEAST INTERIOR AS THE RIDGE ALOFT BEGINS TO SLOWLY RETREAT EAST. COASTAL HAZARD POTENTIAL DAYS 3 AND 4...NONE. && .FIRE WEATHER...MOST SERIOUS CONDITIONS REMAIN IN THE NORTHERN INTERIOR WHERE SURFACE DEW POINTS ARE DOWN IN THE 30S AND MIN RHS CAN REACH AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. ACCORDINGLY WILL ISSUE RED FLAG WARNINGS IN ZONES 219 AND 220 FOR TODAY AND EVEN INTO WEDNESDAY. SMOKE HAS BEEN QUITE EVIDENT ORIGINATING FROM FIRES ALONG THE EASTERN BORDER OF ZONE 220. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE INTERIOR WILL BE MOSTLY WET FOR THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHERN INTERIOR WHERE DEW POINTS ARE UP AROUND 50. && .HYDROLOGY...NO SIGNIFICANT ISSUES. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING FOR AKZ219...AKZ220. && ES JUN 10
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:11 PM AKST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 411 PM AKDT TUE JUN 8 2010 AKZ222-090115- MIDDLE TANANA VALLEY- INCLUDING...FAIRBANKS...FORT WAINWRIGHT...EIELSON AFB...ESTER... NORTH POLE...MOOSE CREEK...TWO RIVERS...FOX...CHATANIKA... CHENA HOT SPRINGS...SOURDOUGH CAMP 411 PM AKDT TUE JUN 8 2010 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO CROSS CHENA HOT SPRINGS ROAD... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS CHENA HOT SPRINGS ROAD THROUGH 5 PM. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE EAST OF TWO RIVERS AND WEST OF CHENA HOT SPRINGS. HAIL TO 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER AND BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE ALSO EXPECTED. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF INCH TO ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. CB
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:23 PM AKST, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 523 PM AKDT TUE JUN 8 2010 AKZ222-090300- MIDDLE TANANA VALLEY- INCLUDING...FAIRBANKS...FORT WAINWRIGHT...EIELSON AFB...ESTER... NORTH POLE...MOOSE CREEK...TWO RIVERS...FOX...CHATANIKA... CHENA HOT SPRINGS...SOURDOUGH CAMP 523 PM AKDT TUE JUN 8 2010 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO CROSS CHENA HOT SPRINGS ROAD EARLY THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO CROSS CHENA HOT SPRINGS ROAD THROUGH 7 PM THIS EVENING FROM JUST EAST OF FAIRBANKS TO TWO RIVERS. THE STRONGER STORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE UNDER THE HEAVIER STORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE. CB
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
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- Heat in Alabama, June 8 to 17, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, June 8 to 9, 2010
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Missouri, June 8 to 9, 2010
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 8, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, June 8, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 8, 2010
- Tornadoes in Iowa, June 8, 2010
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 8 to 9, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, June 8, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, June 8 to 9, 2010
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, June 2010
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: 224280.