Hail in South Dakota, August 14, 2001

Name: Hail in South Dakota, August 14, 2001
Start: 2001-08-14T00:15
End: 2001-08-14T02:45
Location: South Dakota

August 14, 2001 · NWS ABR · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 13, 8:15 PM CST, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 8:15 PM CST, 4 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
915 PM CDT MON AUG 13 2001

NO MAJOR CHANGES NEEDED TO THE ZONES. AN AREA OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW
EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
AS OF 02Z. WILL KEEP THE SMALL POP GOING FOR THE WESTERN CWA DUE TO
THIS. OTHERWISE...TEMPS AND WINDS ON TRACK.

.ABR...NONE.

PARKIN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:15 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hand

When: August 14, 12:15 AM CST
Where: Hand County, 23 mi NE of Miller
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 44.750, -98.650

Hail, Faulk

When: August 14, 2:45 AM CST
Where: Faulk County, 6 mi W of Faulkton
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 45.033, -99.250

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in South Dakota in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5266994, 5266993.