Hail, Meade
- When
- June 23, 4:25 PM MST
- Where
- Meade County, 12 mi SW of Hereford
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.270, -103.050
Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, June 23, 1998
4 hail, 4 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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.
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:26 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail, 4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Meade
- When
- June 23, 4:40 PM MST
- Where
- Meade County, 12 mi SW of Hereford
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.270, -103.050
Tornado, Meade
- When
- June 23, 5:03 PM MST to 5:15 PM MST
- Where
- Meade County, 10 mi NW of Ellsworth Afb
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 44.250, -103.250
Hail, Mellette
- When
- June 23, 5:21 PM MST
- Where
- Mellette County, 1 mi W of White River
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.570, -100.770
Tornado, Meade
- When
- June 23, 5:30 PM MST
- Where
- Meade County, 10 mi NNW of Ellsworth Afb
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 44.280, -103.180
A corral was damaged and some fences were taken out by the tornado.
Tornado, Meade
- When
- June 23, 5:50 PM MST to 5:55 PM MST
- Where
- Meade County, 6 mi N of Ellsworth Afb
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Reported by
- METEOROLOGIST(NON NWS)
- Coordinates
- 44.230, -103.100
Tornado, Todd
- When
- June 23, 6:03 PM MST
- Where
- Todd County, 5 mi N of Olsonville
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.200, -100.620
Hail, Pennington
- When
- June 23, 7:36 PM MST
- Where
- Pennington County, 11 mi N of Wall
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.170, -102.230
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
- Heat in Missouri, June 23 to 30, 1998
- Heat in Illinois, June 23 to 30, 1998
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 23, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, June 23, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 23 to 24, 1998
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 23, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 23, 1998
- Tornado in Iowa, June 23, 1998
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 23, 1998
- Tornado in Alabama, June 23, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 23, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 23, 1998
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 1998Warnings 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5653172, 5653173, 5653174, 5653175, 5653176, 5653177, 5653178, 5653179.