Hail, McPherson
- When
- July 6, 5:40 AM CST
- Where
- McPherson County, 4 mi S of Leola
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.667, -98.950
Hail in South Dakota, July 6, 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 6, 2:00 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:00 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 300 AM CDT FRI JUL 6 2001 PROBLEMS FOR THIS PERIOD ARE ONGOING CONVECTION APPROACHING THE WEST EDGE OF THIS COUNTY WARNING AREA AT THIS TIME...AS WELL AS CHANCE OF CONVECTION OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. CURRENT SATELLITE SHOWS WEAKENING CONVECTION MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD PROBABLY ASSOCIATED WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT WILL SWEEP THROUGH TODAY. WILL INCLUDE CHANCE CATEGORY POPS FOR THIS MORNING TO COVER THIS. FOR THIS AFTERNOON MODEL SOUNDINGS ARE CAPE VALUES OF 3300 J/KG WITH LIS OF -7C. THEY ALSO DEPICT PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OF 1.74 INCHES. HOWEVER TEMPERATURES ARE WARMING ALOFT. ETA PROG SOUNDINGS SHOW H7 TEMPERATURES OF 13C WHICH WILL MAKE CONVECTION DIFFICULT. WILL DISCOUNT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. AFTER FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH TODAY WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN AT THE SURFACE. MODEL TIME HEIGHT CROSS SECTIONS AGREE THAT MOISTURE WILL BE SPARSE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS ALTHOUGH ETA TRIES TO KEEP HIGH CLOUDS AROUND. TEMPERATURES LOOK GOOD ON MOS GUIDANCE WITHk BIG H5 HIGH TO OUR WEST SUMMER SHOULD BE HERE. .ABR...NONE. KEEFE
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:37 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
- Tornadoes in South Carolina, July 6, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 6 to 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in California, July 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 6, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 6, 2001
- Damaging Wind in California, July 6, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 6, 2001
- Lightning Strike in California, July 6, 2001
- Flood in California, July 6, 2001
- Flood in California, July 6, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 6, 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: 5261375.