Hail, Yankton
- When
- July 2, 4:35 AM CST
- Where
- Yankton County, Yankton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 42.867, -97.383
Hail in South Dakota, July 2, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 2:50 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:50 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 350 AM CDT MON JUL 2 2001 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING DEVELOPED AS EXPECTED IN RESPONSE TO INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET. WILL CARRY THESE ACROSS THE EASTERN 2/3RDS OF THE CWA THIS MORNING...WITH SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS THIS AFTERNOON. MAIN CONCERN IS WHERE WARM FRONT WILL SET UP...FOCUSING REDEVELOPMENT OF TSRA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. GENERALLY WENT WITH A BLEND OF THE ETA/AVN...WITH THE WARM FRONT JUST SOUTH OF THE STATE LINE...THUS GIVING THE SOUTHERN CWA/MORVR COUNTIES THE BEST CHANCE OF PRECIP AS MCS SLIDES EAST ALONG THE BOUNDARY OVERNIGHT. WEAK COOL FRONT FORECAST TO SLIDE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE CWA TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY EVENING...SO WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN 2/3RDS OF CWA WITH THIS FEATURE...AND LINGERING INTO TUESDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CWA. .FSD...NONE
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:37 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 New Mexico, July 2, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, July 2, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 2 to 4, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New Mexico, July 2, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 2 to 3, 2001
- High Wind in Nevada, July 2, 2001
- Hail in Montana, July 2, 2001
- Flood in North Carolina, July 2, 2001
- Hail in Montana, July 2, 2001
- Hail in Montana, July 2, 2001
- Waterspouts in Mississippi, July 2, 2001
- High Wind in California, July 2, 2001
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5261077.