Hail, Sanborn
- When
- May 14, 8:25 PM CST
- Where
- Sanborn County, 7 mi W of Letcher
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 43.900, -98.270
Hail in South Dakota, May 14, 1998
Dime size hail covered the ground and broke a few windows.
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
- $2,000
- 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.
Dime size hail covered the ground and broke a few windows.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:22 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Flooding in Puerto Rico, May 14, 1998
- High Wind in Kansas, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, May 14, 1998
- Hail in South Dakota, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, May 14, 1998
- High Wind in New Mexico, May 14, 1998
- High Wind in Oklahoma, May 14, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, May 14, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 14, 1998
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, May 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: 5645174.