South Dakota, 2001

Hail in South Dakota, August 25, 2001

August 25, 2001 · NWS UNR · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 25, 2:15 PM MST, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:15 PM MST, 4 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
315 PM MDT SAT AUG 25 2001

WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CLEARLY SHOWS SHORT WAVE EXTDG SEWD ACRS WRN MT
INTO SERN WY. CONVECTION ALREADY FIRING ALONG SHORT WAVE OVR THE
BLACK HILLS AND NWRN NEB...WHERE CAPES ARE NEAR 2000 J/KG AND LAPSE
RATES ARE STEEPEST ACCORDING TO LATEST LAPS ANALYZES. ACTIVITY WILL
PROPAGATE SLOWLY EWD ALG THE PLAINS TONIGHT...MOSTLY AS ELEVATED
CONVECTION. SECONDARY WAVE ALONG WITH 30-35KT LLJ AND GOOD THETA-E
AND WARM AIR ADVECTION WILL HELP SUPPORT THIS ACTIVITY. SUNDAY LOOKS
FAIRLY BENIGN AS UPR RIDGE AND LACK OF FORCING SHOULD CONFINE ANY
CONVECTION TO THE HILLS. YET ANOTHER WAVE AFFECTS REGION SUN
NIGHT...AND AGAIN MON AND MON NIGHT...SO LOW POPS WILL BE NEEDED
ESPECIALLY ACRS THE HILLS AND SWRN SD FOR MUCH OF PD.

EXTENDED...RIDGE ON TUE BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN WED. DETAILS A BIT
SKETCHY AS MRFS NWLY FLOW CONFLICTS WITH ECMWFS AND ENSEMBLES
MORE WLY FLOW...SO CONFIDENCE IS LOW AT THIS TIME AS TO HOW MUCH
COOLING WILL TAKE PLACE. WILL NOT MAKE ANY MAJOR CHANGES AT THIS
TIME TO EXTENDED.

.UNR...NONE.
JOHNSON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 25, 2:28 PM MST, 4 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
328 PM MDT SAT AUG 25 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0232 PM    2 S DUMONT                SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/01   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0256 PM    3 N ROCHFORD              SD   1 INCH HAIL
08/25/01   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0303 PM    2 WNW ROCHFORD            SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/01   PENNINGTON                     REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

WFO UNR STAFF

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:54 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Oglala Lakota

When
August 25, 6:54 PM MST
Where
Oglala Lakota County, Kyle
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
43.417, -102.183

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

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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: 5265947.