Hail, Meade
- When
- July 14, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Meade County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.200, -103.400
Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, July 14, 1969
9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 14
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.
Event by event
9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Meade
- When
- July 14, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Meade County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.200, -103.080
Thunderstorm Wind, Pennington
- When
- July 14, 1:35 PM CST
- Where
- Pennington County
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.000, -103.080
Hail, Pennington
- When
- July 14, 1:54 PM CST
- Where
- Pennington County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.000, -103.080
Tornado, Fall River
- When
- July 14, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fall River County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 43.370, -103.380
Thunderstorm Wind, Fall River
- When
- July 14, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fall River County
- Coordinates
- 43.380, -103.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Haakon
- When
- July 14, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Haakon County
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.000, -101.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Haakon
- When
- July 14, 4:59 PM CST
- Where
- Haakon County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.000, -101.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Stanley
- When
- July 14, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Stanley County
- Coordinates
- 44.380, -101.000
Thunderstorm Wind, Hughes
- When
- July 14, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Hughes County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.380, -100.280
Thunderstorm Wind, Beadle
- When
- July 14, 9:17 PM CST
- Where
- Beadle County
- Measured
- 68 kt (78 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -98.180
Tornado, Marshall
- When
- July 14, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Marshall County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 13.1 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.720, -97.870
Thunderstorm Wind, Kingsbury
- When
- July 14, 10:12 PM CST
- Where
- Kingsbury County
- Coordinates
- 44.380, -97.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Codington
- When
- July 14, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Codington County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.880, -97.180
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.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 14, 1969
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, July 14, 1969
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 14, 1969
- Tornado and Hail in Mississippi, July 14, 1969
- Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 14, 1969
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 14, 1969
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 14, 1969
- Tornado in Colorado, July 14, 1969
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 14, 1969
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10110905, 10110906, 10110907, 10110908, 10110909, 10110910, 10110911, 10110912, 10110913, 10110914, 10110915, 10110916, 10110917, 10110918.