South Dakota, 2001

Hail in South Dakota, June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001 · NWS FSD · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 29, 2:30 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:30 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
330 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

TRW COMPLEX THAT MOVED S ALONG I29 EARLIER HAS FALLEN APART AS IT
MOVED INTO CAPPED AIR. AIRMASS BEHIND THIS SYS STABILIZED ERN CWA
ATTM. SFC TROF MOVG INTO WRN CWA WL CONT TO SAG SEWD ACRS CWA TONITE
REACHING NW IA ON SAT. CUD SEE A FEW TRW POP UP NR THIS FNT TONITE
BUT MAIN S/W SHEARING OFF ACRS ND AND NRN MN AND DYNAMICS NOT ALL
THAT GREAT. STILL...ENUF INSTABIL TO PSBLY KICK OFF A FEW TRW THIS
EVE ALONG TAIL OF S/W. MAIN FOCUS WL SHIFT TO WRN HIGH PLAINS TONITE
AS MORE IMPRESSIVE S/W MOVES INTO WRN DAKOTAS BY MORN. THIS ACTIVITY
SHUD MOVE ACRS CWA ON SAT. PBLY WL NOT FALL APART TOO MUCH AS CAP IS
WEAK. CUD SEE ISOLD SVR STORMS IN THE AFTN BUT SHEAR IS VERY
WEAK...SO STORMS WL BE MORE PULSE LIKE. THIS S/W SHUD EXIT CWA SAT
EVE WITH COOLER SFC HIGH MOVG INTO AREA ON SUN. MODELS DO INDICATE
THAT MOST OF CWA WL BE DRY ON SUN...EXCEPT FAR SRN CWA AS STALLED
FNT WL BE ACRS NEB AND IA. S/W WL MOVE ACRS SRN CWA AND WL INTERACT
WITH FNT TO PRODUCE SCT TRW. FEEL AVN IS TOO STG IN PUSHING SFC FNT
S AND ETA LOOKS MORE REASONABLE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. THEREFORE WL
HAVE CHC OF TRW ACRS THE S.

EFP STILL LOOKS UNSETTLED FOR MON WITH NEXT FNT EXPECTED TO MOVE
ACRS CWA. COOLER AND DRIER TUE THRU FRI...BUT NOT AS COLD AS MRF WUD
SUGGEST. HARD TO BELIEVE H8V5 TEMPS 0 TO -2 OVR NRN GRT LAKES REGION
TEMPS BY LATE NEXT WEEK ESPEC IN JULY. SO WL NOT GO AS COLD...WITH
MAINLY 70S TO NR 80 DEG FOR HIGHS.

.FSD...NONE.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Jerauld

When
June 29, 6:02 PM CST
Where
Jerauld County, 8 mi N of Wessington Spgs
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
44.200, -98.567

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

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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: 5252548.