Hail, Lawrence
- When
- June 12, 9:35 AM MST
- Where
- Lawrence County, 8 mi S of Deadwood
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.267, -103.700
Hail in South Dakota, June 12, 2001
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.
- 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
- 2
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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 8:55 AM MST, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 8:55 AM MST, 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 955 AM MDT TUE JUN 12 2001 LATEST WV IMAGERY CLEARLY SHOWS UPPER LEVEL LOW INLAND OVER PAC NW...WITH STRONG JET MAX DIVING SE INTO GT BASIN. MOIST SW FLOW ALOFT WITH EMBEDDED SHORT WAVES WILL MOVE NE ACRS CWA TODAY. FIRST SHORT WAVE ALREADY TRIGGERING CONVECTION IN FAR SERN ZONES. A SECOND AND EVEN STRONGER SHORTWAVE EXPECTED TO TRACK ACROSS AREA LATER TODAY...HELPING TO ERODE STRONG CAPPING CURRENTLY IN PLACE AROUND 700 MB. AT THE SURFACE...STRONG SLY FLOW INVOF 700 MB EAST OF DEVELOPING SFC LOW OVER ERN WY/CO WILL ADVECT ACROSS REGION TODAY...OVERRUNNING WARM FRONT WHICH IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN SOUTH AND EAST OF CWA. CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS PLACE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CWA...WHERE SHEAR PROFILES ARE STRONGEST AND CAPES IN EXCESS OF 3000 J/KG WILL DEVELOP. SRH OF 300 TO 400 WOULD SUGGEST POSSIBLE TORNADIC ACTIVITY. BASED ON STRONG CAPPING CURRENTLY IN PLACE...MOST CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE DELAYED UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .UNR...NONE. JOHNSON
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:35 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Lawrence
- When
- June 12, 9:45 AM MST
- Where
- Lawrence County, 4 mi S of Deadwood
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.333, -103.700
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: 5254046, 5254047.