Hail, Hutchinson
- When
- May 31, 6:15 PM CST to 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Hutchinson County, Menno
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 43.233, -97.583
Hail in South Dakota, May 31, 2001
Large hail covered the ground.
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 happened
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Large hail covered the ground.
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 May 31, 2:10 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:10 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 310 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001 THINGS A LIT MORE UNDER CONTROL TDA AS UPR LOW AND ASSCD MOISTURE FINALLY PULLED OFF TO SE. HOWEVER...NOW NEW UPR TROF DIGGING SE TOWARDS CWA TNGT AND FRI...TAPPING INTO LEFTOVER MOISTURE... BRINGING BACK SCT SHWRS AND A FEW TSTMS ESP TNGT. MAIN INSTABILITY THIS AFTN INTO EVE WILL BE N AND W IN CWA...WHERE BEST CHC TSTMS IS. TIMING OF COLD ADV CRITICAL TO HIGHS FOR FRI WITH NRN CWA PRETTY MUCH IN THE COOL AIR RIGHT AWAY EVEN WITH DECENT MIXING. WILL HAVE TO PUT A DAMPER ON THE TEMPS ALL THE WAY FM THE WEEKEND THRU THE EXTD AS WE REALLY DO NOT EVER GET INTO SFC WARM ADV FOR VERY LONG UNTIL NEXT THU. RELATIVELY NICE FOR SAT AHEAD OF NEXT BIG WX MAKER. TREND OF MODELS IS TO SLOW DOWN AND AMPLIFY THIS NEXT STG UPR TROF...WITH NEW UKMET ESP OMINOUS AND WET. DOES LOOK LIKE GOOD CHC OF SIGNIFICANT SHWRS AND TSTMS FM SUN THRU MON...WITH LINGERING COOL SHWRS MON NGT THRU PSBLY TUE NGT ESP IN ERN HLF CWA. .FSD...NONE RYRHOLM
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:13 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
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- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 31, 2001
- Tornado in Illinois, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 31, 2001
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, May 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: 5243633.