Hail in South Dakota, July 15, 2001

Name: Hail in South Dakota, July 15, 2001
Start: 2001-07-15T12:30
End: 2001-07-15T12:30
Location: South Dakota

July 15, 2001 · NWS UNR · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 15, 11:40 AM MST, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 11:40 AM MST, 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 9:40 AM MST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-WYZ054>058-151945-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1040 AM MDT SUN JUL 15 2001

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...

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...AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS TROUGH WILL COMBINE WITH ABUNDANT
MOISTURE AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW
OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

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

WCJIN-WYNE

CZEPYHA

Local storm report, Jul 15, 11:42 AM MST, 48 minutes before

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The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:28 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Haakon

When: July 15, 12:30 PM MST
Where: Haakon County, 6 mi N of Milesville
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.533, -101.667

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

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: 5260169.