Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, June 26, 2025
Start: 2025-06-26T14:45
End: 2025-06-26T19:40
Location: Montana

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 6

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.

Thunderstorms brought severe wind gusts and large hail to many locations.

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 Jun 26, 1:13 PM MST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:13 PM MST, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:43 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Valley

When: June 26, 2:45 PM MST
Where: Valley County, 3.58 mi SE of Baylor
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 48.610, -106.350

Hail up to the size of quarters in addition to heavy rain was reported by a trained spotter.

Hail, Daniels

When: June 26, 2:57 PM MST
Where: Daniels County, 3.58 mi SE of Scobey
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 48.760, -105.370

Ping pong ball size hail was reported with a photo via social media.

Thunderstorm Wind, Roosevelt

When: June 26, 3:00 PM MST
Where: Roosevelt County, 7.5 mi NW of Wolf Pt
Measured: 53 kt (61 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 48.180, -105.760

Wolf Point NW Mesonet site (Montana Climate Office).

Hail, Roosevelt

When: June 26, 5:10 PM MST
Where: Roosevelt County, Froid
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 48.330, -104.500

A trained spotter reported pea to quarter size hail.

Thunderstorm Wind, Petroleum

When: June 26, 6:50 PM MST
Where: Petroleum County, 5.6 mi SE of Teigen
Measured: 54 kt (62 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 46.970, -108.500

The wind gust occurred at the Winnett Southwest MCO mesonet.

Thunderstorm Wind, Garfield

When: June 26, 7:40 PM MST
Where: Garfield County, 11.17 mi ESE of Mosby
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 46.940, -107.650

Mosby SE Mesonet site (Montana Climate Office).

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1262381, 1262380, 1262384, 1262382, 1262385, 1262387.