Hail, Hand
- When
- June 12, 6:55 PM CST
- Where
- Hand County, 10 mi S of Vayland
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.333, -98.783
Hail in South Dakota, June 12, 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 Jun 12, 2:15 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:15 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 315 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE MODELS ARE IN FAIR AGREEMENT INITIALLY BUT THESE DIFFERENCES GROWS AS TIME MOVES OUT TO 48HRS. THE ETA AND AVN SEEM TO AGREE THE BEST THROUGH THE TWO DAY FORECAST PERIOD WITH THE NGM BEING MUCH MORE IN DISAGREEMENT WITH THE REST OF THE MODELS BY 48HRS. HAVE DECIDED TO USE A COMBINATIONS OF THE ETA AND AVN BUT LEAN MORE TOWARD THE ETA. THERE ARE A FEW CONCERNS WITH THIS FCST. ONE IS THE POSITIONING AND TIMING OF FRONT AND OTHER BOUNDARIES. THE NEW ETA SEEM TO BE A LITTLE SLOWER THAN THE PREVIOUS MODEL. THIS PUTS THE MOISTURE AND LIFT LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW. BUT THE BETTER NUMBERS OR CONVECTION IS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. ANOTHER CONCERN IS JUST WHEN WILL THE SEVERE CONVECTION START THIS EVENING. CONVECTION IS ALL AROUND US AT THIS TIME. STILL HAVE A GOOD CAP OVER US BUT IT IS WEAKENING. AND FINELY HOW MUCH RAIN WITH THEY GENERATE. THE AMS IS QUITE MOIST AND FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE HAS SOME LOW READING. BUT STILL WILL HOLD OFF ON A FLASH FLOOD WATCH. NOW FOR DAY TWO...THE UPPER LOW THAT IS DIGGING SOUTH OVER WESTERN U.S. WILL SLIDE EAST OVER THE STATE BY THURSDAY. THE PRECIP SHOULD BE MORE IN THE FORM OF RAIN TO SHOWERS THAN THUNDERSTORMS AS THE AMS WILL BE A LITTLE MORE STABLE BEHIND THE FRONT. NGM/AVN GUIDANCE TEMPS SEEM TO CLOSE BUT WILL TAKE A BLEND OF THE TWO FOR THE FCST. .EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION... MODELS ARE IN FAIR AGREEMENT THIS PERIOD. HOWEVER THEY AGREE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ZONAL FLOW OVER THIS AREA IN THE NEAR TERM WHICH WILL HAVE EMBEDDED WAVES IN THE FLOW MAKING TIMING VERY TRICKY AT BEST. TOWARD THE END OF THE PERIOD THE MID CONTINENT RIDGE STARTS TO REBUILD RETURNING AN UPPER FLOW FROM THE SOUTHWEST WHICH WILL HELP TO USHER IN WARMER TEMPERATURES. FIRST UPPER WAVE WITH ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW AND FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY AS IT MOVES EAST A WEAK BAROCLINIC BOUNDARY PERSISTS THROUGH TUESDAY AND FINALLY PUSHES THROUGH AHEAD OF H5 CLOSED LOW MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN CANADA. WILL START WITH CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AND AGAIN FROM AROUND SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY. MOS TEMPERATURES LOOK REASONABLE AND WILL GO CLOSE TO THEM. .ABR...NONE.
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:57 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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 12, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, June 12, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, June 12 to 23, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, June 12, 2001
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, June 12 to 13, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, June 12 to 13, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, June 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Utah, June 12, 2001
- Hail in Iowa, June 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Michigan, June 12, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Georgia, June 12 to 13, 2001
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5255075.