1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Pea- to marble-size hail accumulated up to 12 inches on farmland and roads. Some cars slid off roads into ditches, and there was damage to alfalfa, wheat, and other crops.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 1994Every state in 1994This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, May 1994
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: 10346446.