Hail, Hamlin
- When
- July 22, 1:34 AM CST
- Where
- Hamlin County, Bryant
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.583, -97.467
Hail in South Dakota, July 22, 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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 21, 7:55 PM CST, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 7:55 PM CST, 5 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
855 PM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001
CONVECTION TO W AND SW OF CWA. oWITH LLJ DEVELOPING AND ONGOING
TRENDS...THINK ZONES STILL IN REASONABLE SHAPE. NO UPDAE PLANNED.
.ABR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT NORTHEAST SD ZONES 008...020>023
AND WESTERN MN ZONES 039 AND 046.
MARSHALLThe radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:32 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 22, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 22, 2001
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 22, 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: 5261556.