Name: Hail in South Dakota, July 13, 2001
Start: 2001-07-13T11:10
End: 2001-07-13T11:10
Location: South Dakota

Where it happened

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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Jul 13, 8:40 AM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 8:40 AM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 9:40 AM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>026-028>032-041>044-046-047-WYZ055>058-131915-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1040 AM MDT FRI JUL 13 2001

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER NORTHEAST WYOMING AND
WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH A SLIGHT
RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE REGION. THE MAIN
THREATS FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4
INCH AND STRAIGHT LINE WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MPH.

.DISCUSSION...AMPLE MOISTURE AND HEATING WILL PROVIDE AN UNSTABLE
ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE REGION WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING
THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT.

COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THIS OUTLOOK ARE...CUSTER...BENNETT...SHANNON...
JACKSON...ZIEBACH...PERKINS...MEADE...BUTTE...HARDING...CROOK...
CAMPBELL...LAWREiNCE...MELLETTE...TODD...WESTON...HAAKON...FALL RIVER
AND PENNINGTON.

WCJIN-WYNE

CZEPYHA

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pennington

When: July 13, 11:10 AM MST
Where: Pennington County, 3 mi SE of Deerfield
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 43.983, -103.783

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

More

Every storm in South Dakota in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in South Dakota, July 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5260154.