Hail, Haakon
- When
- August 28, 2:30 AM MST
- Where
- Haakon County, 12 mi NE of Philip
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.150, -101.500
Hail in South Dakota, August 28, 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 28, 2:15 AM MST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 2:15 AM MST, 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 315 AM MDT TUE AUG 28 2001 S/W CURRENTLY MVG ACRS CWA...WITH MOST INTENSE TSTMS OVR ERN PENN/ WRN HAAKON COUNTIES NEAR NOSE OF LLVL JET. THIS ACTIVITY SHLD CONT TO MV E AND BE OUT OF CWA NXT COUPLE OF HOURS. ELSEWHERE CLDS AND SCT SHWS ASSCD WITH S/W CONT. S/W CURRENTLY MVG ACRS CWA WL CONT TO DO SO VERY SLOWLY PROD SCT SHWS/TSTMS ACRS FA TODAY...THIS WL HELP TO HOLD TEMPS DOWN ABIT. CDFNT WL MV ACRS NE WY/NW SD TONIGHT AND REST OF CWA EARLY ON WED HELPING PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL PCPN. ANOTHER S/W WL BRING CLOUDS AND CHC PCPN FOR WED AFT AND WED NITE. TEMPS SHLD BE SIG COOLER ON WED IN NE WY/BLK HILLS AND NW SD... WHILE FAR ERN AND SE PORTIONS OF CWA SHLD AGAIN BE UP ARD 90. IN THE EXTENDED...WL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES AT THIS TIME. LKS LIKE SEASONABLE TEMPS AND A DAILY CHC OF TSTMS THROUGH LABOR DAY. .UNR...NONE.
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:28 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
- Wildfire in California, August 28 to 31, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 28, 2001
- Hail in New Mexico, August 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, August 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 28, 2001
- Flooding and High Wind in Alaska, August 28 to 31, 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: 5265956.