Hail, Jerauld
- When
- June 10, 2:40 PM CST to 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Jerauld County, Crow Lake to Wessington Spgs
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.950, -98.730
Hail in South Dakota, June 10, 1998
Large hail caused widespread damage to wheat, soybean, corn, and sunflower crops; broke windows, and damaged vehicles and buildings. The hail accumulated 6 inches in places.
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
- $50,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Large hail caused widespread damage to wheat, soybean, corn, and sunflower crops; broke windows, and damaged vehicles and buildings. The hail accumulated 6 inches in places. Over 20 thousand acres of crops were affected. Damage was not total. Over 2 months later some crops were still recovering according to the extension office, so damage estimates were not available.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, June 10 to 27, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, June 10, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, June 10, 1998
- Tornado in South Carolina, June 10, 1998
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 10, 1998
- Hail in Kansas, June 10, 1998
- Tornado in Kentucky, June 10, 1998
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 10, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, June 10, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 10 to 11, 1998
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 10, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, June 10, 1998
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, June 1998
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: 5661917.