South Dakota, 2001

Hail in South Dakota, August 28, 2001

August 28, 2001 · NWS UNR · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 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
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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 28, 2:00 PM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 2:00 PM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
300 PM MDT TUE AUG 28 2001

CENTER OF SHORT WAVE...WHICH NOW LOOKS MORE LIKE AN UPPER
LOW...APPARENT ON WATER VAPOR OVER WRN SD.  STRONG TO SVR TSTMS
FIRING IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO CENTER OF LOW.  ACRS ERN PORTIONS OF
CWFA CLOUD COVER HAS KEPT TEMPS DOWN...HENCE CURRENT CINS ARE AROUND
400-500 J/KG. HOWEVER...CLEARING ACRS SWRN SD WILL SPREAD EAST AND
HELP DESTABILIZE AMS SCNTRL ZONES LATER THIS AFTN.  18Z ETA/RUC SPIN
UP SECONDARY WAVE SOUTH OF INITIAL LOW...WHICH WILL KEEP PVA AND
THUS CHC TSTMS THIS EVE ACRS SCNTRL ZONES.  SUBSIDENCE BEHIND LOW
WILL KEEP THINGS MOSTLY DRY ACRS NERN WY AND BLACK HILLS THIS EVE.
CDFNT PROGGED TO MOVE INTO NERN WY/NWRN SD BEFORE DAWN WED...AND
THRU SCNTRL SD DURG THE AFTN. EXPECT CONVECTION TO DEVELOP ALONG FNT
DURG DAY AS IT MOVES SEWD...AND BEHIND FNT WITH APRCH OF UPR TROF.
THU LOOKS MOSTLY DRY AND COOL AS SFC HIGH AND DRY AIR SETTLE ACRS
REGION.

.EXTENDED...WK DIRTY RIDGE DOMINATES AREA THRU EXTENDED PD...FOR A
CHC OF TSTMS FROM TIME TO TIME. COOL TEMPS WILL LIKELY PREVAIL THRU
THE WEEKEND AS THICKNESS VALUES CHANGE LITTLE...BUT WILL REBOUND
EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THICKNESS RIDGE BLDS ACRS REGION.  ECMWF TRIES TO
SWING AN UPR LOW ACRS NRN PLAINS SUN...BUT MRF KEEPS WAVE N OF THE
CANADIAN BORDER.

.UNR...NONE.
JOHNSON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 28, 1:59 PM MST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
259 PM MDT TUE AUG 28 2001

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

0230 PM    10 E CUSTER               SD   .88 INCH HAIL
08/28/01   CUSTER                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:41 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pennington

When
August 28, 4:40 PM MST
Where
Pennington County, 21 mi S of Wall
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
43.700, -102.233

Hail, Oglala Lakota

When
August 28, 4:40 PM MST
Where
Oglala Lakota County, 18 mi N of Kyle
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
43.683, -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.

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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: 5265954, 5265955.