Hail, Hutchinson
- When
- June 19, 8:10 PM CST to 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hutchinson County, Clayton to 4 mi NW of Freeman
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 43.380, -97.670
Hail in South Dakota, June 19, 1997
Hail broke windows and flattened corn and soybean crops.
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
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Hail broke windows and flattened corn and soybean crops.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:12 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Lightning Strike in Connecticut, June 19, 1997
- Hail in Nebraska, June 19, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 19 to 20, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, June 19, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 19, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 19 to 20, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, June 19, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 19, 1997
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, June 1997
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: 5602287.