Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 12, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 12, 2001
Start: 2001-06-12T22:52
End: 2001-06-12T23:20
Location: South Dakota

June 12, 2001 · NWS FSD · 4 events in 1 county or zone

2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $30,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 4

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 Jun 12, 9:15 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:15 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1015 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001

ON GOING SEVERE WEATHER...WILL CONTIUE FCST AS IS.

.FSD...bNONE
 WB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 10:13 PM CST, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1113 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0417 PM    1 NE HARRIS               IA   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   OSCEOLA                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0603 PM    INWOOD                    IA   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   LYON                           REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0626 PM    1 S BRANDON               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0627 PM    DELL RAPIDS               SD   .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0634 PM    COLTON                    SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0654 PM    CROOKS                    SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0655 PM    1 E HARTFORD              SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0657 PM    CROOKS                    SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0701 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0703 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0705 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0706 PM    (FSD)JOE FOSS FLD SIOUX F SD   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      OFFICIAL NWS OBSERVATION

0709 PM    ROCK VLY                  IA   .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   SIOUX                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0715 PM    ROCK VLY                  IA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   SIOUX                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0720 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0723 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0725 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0729 PM    1 NE SIOUX FALLS          SD   .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA

0733 PM    1 S BRANDON               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0735 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA

0741 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   TORNADO
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.  TREES DOWN
                                          AND VEHICLES DAMAGED.

0804 PM    SHELDON                   IA   62 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/01   SIOUX                          MEASURED BY AWOS
                                          AUTOMATIC OBSERVING
                                          EQUIPMENT.

0819 PM    MILFORD                   IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0835 PM    BRIDGEWATER               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MCCOOK                         REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0845 PM    MAY CITY                  IA   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   OSCEOLA

0855 PM    ROCK RAPIDS               IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   LYON                           REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0858 PM    10 W MILFORD              IA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0858 PM    10 W MILFORD              IA   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0920 PM    ELLSWORTH                 MN   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   NOBLES                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0946 PM    SPIRIT LAKE               IA   TORNADO
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      ROPE TORNADO ON GROUND
                                          WITH DEBRIS. REPORTED
                                          BY MEDIA.

0946 PM    SPIRIT LAKE               IA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY MEDIA.

Local storm report, Jun 12, 10:30 PM CST, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1130 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0550 PM    MAY CITY                  IA   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   OSCEOLA                        REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0641 PM    ROCK RAPIDS               IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   LYON

0653 PM    5 W ELLSWORTH             MN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   NOBLES

0658 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA

0701 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA

0702 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0850 PM    LAKE PARK                 IA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0902 PM    HARRIS                    IA   FLOOD
06/12/01   OSCEOLA                        WATER A FOOT DEEP ON
                                          ROADS. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0953 PM    6 E SPIRIT LAKE           IA   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY STORM CHASER.

Local storm report, Jun 12, 10:52 PM CST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1152 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0540 PM    7 NW HARTLEY              IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   OBRIEN                         REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0645 PM    ROCK VLY                  IA   .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   SIOUX

0702 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA

0705 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0711 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA

0712 PM    2 W GARRETSON             SD   TORNADO
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0724 PM    SIOUX FALLS               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   LINCOLN

0736 PM    ROCK RAPIDS               IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   LYON

0753 PM    SHELDON                   IA   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   SIOUX

0757 PM    SHELDON                   IA   .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   SIOUX

0845 PM    OCHEYEDAN                 IA   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   OSCEOLA                        REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0859 PM    LAKE PARK                 IA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0909 PM    3 W LAKE PARK             IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0910 PM    LAKE PARK                 IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0921 PM    WAHPETON                  IA   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   DICKINSON                      REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0926 PM    1 S MONTGOMERY            IA   TORNADO
06/12/01   DICKINSON

0944 PM    1 S VALLEY SPGS           SD   65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/01   MINNEHAHA                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0950 PM    IROQUOIS                  SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   KINGSBURY

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:50 UTC.

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Event by event

2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Moody

When: June 12, 10:52 PM CST
Where: Moody County, 10 mi N of Colman
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Property damage: $30,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.133, -96.817

Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, and blew electrical poles over to a 45 degree angle.

Hail, Moody

When: June 12, 10:52 PM CST
Where: Moody County, 10 mi N of Colman
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.133, -96.817

Thunderstorm Wind, Moody

When: June 12, 11:15 PM CST
Where: Moody County, Flandreau
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 44.050, -96.583

Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including one large willow tree uprooted.

Hail, Moody

When: June 12, 11:20 PM CST
Where: Moody County, Flandreau
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 44.050, -96.583

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
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, June 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5253237, 5253238, 5253240, 5253239.