Hail in South Dakota, May 1 to 21, 1995

Name: Hail in South Dakota, May 1 to 21, 1995
Start: 1995-05-01T00:00
End: 1995-05-21T21:59
Location: South Dakota

May 1 to 21, 1995 · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Sdz038 - 053 - 059 - 060 - 065 - 068 - 069

When: May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 21, 9:59 PM CST
Where: Sdz038 - 053 - 059 - 060 - 065 - 068 - 069 County, Stratford
Measured: 0.75 in hail

James River in East Central/Southeast Flooding along the James River continued from the end of April through all of May. An all time record stage was recorded at Huron on the 19th, and the river further south reached levels not far below all time record stages which were reached in April. Continued flooding of homes, other buildings, parks, and roads occurred. Agricultural losses due to delayed or impossible planting were expected to be very large.

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

Every storm in South Dakota in 1995 Every state in 1995 This day in weather history Warnings in South Dakota, May 1995

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: 10346128.