Hail, Fall River
- When
- August 14, 12:00 AM MST
- Where
- Fall River County, 3 mi N of Edgemont
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.350, -103.833
Hail in South Dakota, August 14, 2001
1 hail, 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
- 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 13, 7:48 PM MST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 7:48 PM MST, 4 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 845 PM MDT MON AUG 12 2001 LATEST SFC ANALYSIS REVEALS LOW OVER NE MT WITH A TROF EXTENDIG S ACROSS CENTRAL WY. ANOTHER TROF SEEN EXTENDING INTO NW SD. SATELLITE INDC INCREASING MID/HIGH AS WELL AS CONVECTIVE CLOUDS OVER WY. WV INDC S/WV APPROACHING NW WY. KUDX INDC SMALL MCS OVER NW SD AND A FEW TSTMS OVER NE WY ALONG THE OUTFLOW FM MCS. CURRENT ZONE PACKAGE ON TRACK. HAVE UPDATED TO CHANGE PRECIP WORDING AND TO TWEAK WINDS A BIT. CONVECTION OVER CWFA ATTM SHOULD DIMINISH AS IT PROPAGATES EWRD. POTENT S/WV UPSTREAM WILL BRING ANOTHER GOOD CHANCE OF PRECIP LATER TONIGHT. NEW WORDING REFLECTS THIS. STILL ANTICIPATE GOOD BIT OF PRECIP ACROSS CWFA LATE TONIGHT/EARLY TUE MORN THROUGH TUESDAY. PRECIP WILL MOVE FM W TO EAST AFFECTING NEARLY EVERY ZONE. UNR...NONE. 99
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:59 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
- Heat in Texas, August 14, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, August 14, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Texas, August 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 14, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 14, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Minnesota, August 14, 2001
- Wildfire in California, August 14 to 15, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 14, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 14, 2001
- Flooding in New York, August 14, 2001
- Flooding and Damaging Wind in New Jersey, August 14, 2001
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, August 2001
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: 5265937.