Hail in Iowa, May 28, 2002

Name: Hail in Iowa, May 28, 2002
Start: 2002-05-28T21:10
End: 2002-05-28T21:10
Location: Iowa

May 28, 2002 · NWS FSD · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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
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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 May 28, 8:06 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 8:06 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
905 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002

SHWRS AND TSTMS DVLPD LATE THIS AFTN ALONG WEAK TROF MOVG E THRU IN
EXTRM SE SD AND WEAK BNDRY FM NRN NE INTO NW IA ALNG THE MN BORDER
THAT WAS SAGGING S. THE TSTMS WERE NOW WEAKING WITH SUNSET AND SHLD
CONT TO DO SO TNGT. WILL HAVE SCTD SHWRS/TSTMS ENDING IN FAR ERN AND
SE ZNS OVR SW MN...NW IA AND EXTRM NRN NE BY MDNGT. CRNT FCST LOWS
LOOK GOOD FOR TNGT AS WNDS BCMG LGT...MAINLY FM S TO SW...AND PTCLDY
SKIES.

.FSD...NONE
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The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:10 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Plymouth

When: May 28, 9:10 PM CST
Where: Plymouth County, 4 mi SW of Hinton
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 42.600, -96.350

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Iowa in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Iowa, May 2002

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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5295611.