Hail, Stanley
- When
- July 24, 2:35 AM CST
- Where
- Stanley County, 15 mi NW of Ft Pierre
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -100.583
Hail in South Dakota, July 24, 2001
3 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
- 3
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 24, 2:00 AM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:00 AM CST, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 300 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2001 CONVECTION CURRENTLY OCCURING ALONG BOUNDARY THROUGH CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. BOUNDARY SHOWS WELL IN KABR GROUND CLUTTER. AVN AND ETA BOTH SEEM TO LOCK ONTO BOTH MAJOR AREAS OF CONVECTION TONIGHT. AREA IN SOUTHERN NEBRASKA IS BY FAR THE MOST IMPRESSIVE BUT AREA MOVING ACROSS NORTH PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA IS OF MUCH MORE IMMEDIATE CONCERN. WOULD EXPECT IT TO TRAVEL UNDER H5 WAVE AS DEPICTED ON AVN...ONGOING CONVECTION IN SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTY WARNING AREA DICTATES A SHORT DISCUSSION THIS MORNING. .ABR...NONE. KEEFE
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 184 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:36 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hughes
- When
- July 24, 2:40 AM CST
- Where
- Hughes County, 13 mi NW of Pierre
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -100.517
Hail, Sully
- When
- July 24, 2:45 AM CST
- Where
- Sully County, 23 mi SW of Onida
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.467, -100.400
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
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Wildfire in California, July 24 to 31, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Iowa, July 24, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 24, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 24, 2001
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 24, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, July 24 to 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Maine, July 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 24 to 25, 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: 5261569, 5261570, 5261571.