Hail, Meade
- When
- June 16, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Meade County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.150, -103.100
Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, June 16, 1989
4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
- 4
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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
4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Pennington
- When
- June 16, 7:48 PM CST
- Where
- Pennington County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.120, -103.720
Hail, Pennington
- When
- June 16, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pennington County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.080, -103.450
Thunderstorm Wind, Meade
- When
- June 16, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Meade County
- Measured
- 62 kt (71 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.150, -103.100
Thunderstorm Wind, Pennington
- When
- June 16, 8:24 PM CST
- Where
- Pennington County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.080, -103.220
Thunderstorm Wind, Lawrence
- When
- June 16, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Lawrence County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -103.850
Tornado, Meade
- When
- June 16, 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Meade County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 6 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 44.900, -102.480
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 Hail in South Carolina, June 16, 1989
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, June 16, 1989
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 16, 1989
- Tornadoes and Hail in Florida, June 16, 1989
- Tornado in Tennessee, June 16, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wyoming, June 16, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 16, 1989
- Damaging Winds in New Jersey, June 16, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 16, 1989
- Hail in Montana, June 16, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 16, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 16, 1989
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: 10126053, 10126054, 10126056, 10126057, 10126058, 10126059, 10126055.