Hail, Jackson
- When
- August 3, 1:25 PM MST to 1:30 PM MST
- Where
- Jackson County, 6 mi E of Wanblee
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.567, -101.550
Hail in South Dakota, August 3, 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 3, 9:15 AM MST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 9:15 AM MST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1015 AM MDT FRI AUG 3 2001 CURRENT ZONES LOOK GD...WL UPDATE TO UP TEMPS JUST ABIT...ALREADY 96 IN STURGIS AND LOWER 90S SEVERAL LOCATIONS. .UNR...FIRE WEATHER WATCH NERN WY AND BLKHLS THIS AFTN AND EVE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 9:45 AM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
SDZ001-002-012-013-024>031-041-042-WYZ054>058-031945- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1045 AM MDT FRI AUG 3 2001 THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE OVER WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS IS DRY LIGHTNING. .DISCUSSION... UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS TO THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. MOISTURE NEEDED TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXTREMELY LIMITED. IF A THUNDERSTORM DOES DEVELOP...VERY LITTLE RAIN WOULD REACH THE GROUND. COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THIS OUTLOOK ARE...CUSTER...SHANNON...PERKINS... MEADE...BUTTE...HARDFING...CROOK...CAMPBELL...LAWRENCE...WESTON...FALL RIVER AND PENNINGTON. WCJIN-WYNE
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:24 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
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 3 to 4, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 3, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 3 to 4, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Massachusetts, August 3, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 3, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, August 3, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in New York, August 3, 2001
- Hurricane in Guam, August 3 to 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in New York, August 3, 2001
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, August 3, 2001
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, August 3, 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: 5265874.