Hail, Lawrence
- When
- August 25, 1:32 PM MST
- Where
- Lawrence County, 2 mi S of Dumont
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.217, -103.750
Hail in South Dakota, August 25, 2001
3 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
- 3
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, 9:30 AM MST, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 9:30 AM MST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1030 AM MDT SAT AUG 25 2001 WEAK SHORT WAVE ROUNDING UPR RIDGE OVR GT BASIN CURRENTLY MOVG EWD ACRS WY...AS SEEN IN WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. AXIS OF INSTABILITY SETS UP ACRS SWRN SD AND BLACK HILLS THIS AFTN...WITH CAPES NEAR 2000 J/KG AND LIS OF MINUS 5-6. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH RECOVERING DEW PTS AND HEATING MAY TRIGGER A FEW TSTMS ACRS THESE AREAS THIS AFTN...SO HAVE UPDATED FCST TO REFLECT THIS. WAVE PROPAGATES EWD ONTO PLAINS TONIGHT...WHERE GOOD THETA-E AND WARM AIR ADVECTION AS LLJ SETS UP WILL ALLOW SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION TO OCCUR. CURRENT FCST HANDLES THIS WELL. .UNR...NONE. JOHNSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 9:19 AM MST, 4 hours 13 minutes before
SDZ013-014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-WYZ057-251915- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1019 AM MDT SAT AUG 25 2001 THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THROUGH TONIGHT. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. .DISCUSSION...A WEAK WAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON TOUCHING OFF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE BLACK HILLS. AS THE WAVE MOVES THROUGH SOUTH DAKOTA OVERNIGHT...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ON THE ADJACENT PLAINS...MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM STURGIS TO FAITH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE. COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THIS OUTLOOK ARE...CUSTER...TRIPP...BENNETT... SHANNON...JACKSON...ZIEBACH...MEADE...BUTTE...CROOK...LAWRENCE... MELLETTE...TODD...WESTON...HAAKON...FALL RIVER AND PENNINGTON. WCJIN-WYNE HELGESON
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 9:53 AM MST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
SDZ013-014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-WYZ057-252000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1053 AM MDT SAT AUG 25 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SPEARFISH TO FAITH. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH AND STRAIGHT LINE WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MPH. .DISCUSSION...A WEAK WAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON TOUCHING OFF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE BLACK HILLS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE. DIME SIZED HAIL OR GREATER WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. AS THE WAVE MOVES THROUGH SOUTH DAKOTA OVERNIGHT...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ON THE ADJACENT PLAINS. ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THIS OUTLOOK ARE...CUSTER...TRIPP...BENNETT... SHANNON...JACKSON...ZIEBACH...MEADE...BUTTE...CROOK...LAWRENCE... MELLETTE...TODD...WESTON...HAAKON...FALL RIVER AND PENNINGTON. WCJIN-WYNE HELGESON
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:33 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Lawrence
- When
- August 25, 1:40 PM MST to 1:56 PM MST
- Where
- Lawrence County, 13 mi S of Lead
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.167, -103.750
Hail, Pennington
- When
- August 25, 2:03 PM MST
- Where
- Pennington County, 2 mi WNW of Rochford
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.133, -103.750
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
- Rip Current in Delaware, August 25 to 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2001
- Tornado in Indiana, August 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2001
- Tornadoes in Wisconsin, August 25, 2001
- Rip Currents in New Jersey, August 25 to 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, August 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, August 25, 2001
- Hail in Texas, August 25, 2001
- Tornado in Illinois, August 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, August 25, 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: 5265949, 5265950, 5265951.