Hail, Sioux
- When
- October 1, 1:49 PM CST
- Where
- Sioux County, 5 mi W of Lebanon
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.100, -96.467
Large hail covered the ground.
Hail in Iowa, October 1, 2002
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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 1, 9:45 AM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 9:45 AM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1045 AM CDT TUE OCT 1 2002 SFC BNDRY HAS NOW SLOWED TO A CRAWL ALG FAR SERN CWA BRDR...AND AWAITING FIRST WAVE ACRS NRN KS/SWRN NEBRASKA TO DO MUCH MORE MOVING. NLG PROF SHOWS OFF SFC FLOW IS FAR FROM FAVORABLE FOR PROPAGATION. AREA OF ELEVATED TSRA IN ECNTRL NE WITH LIFT LEADING INITIAL WAVE...AND VERY GOOD LAPSE RATES ALFT OVR BNDRY. SFC REMAINS CAPPED INTO EARLY AFTN...BUT IF TMPS REACH LOWER TO MID 80S AS LOW LVL MSTR GATHERS VIA LOW LVL CONVERGENCE...APPEARS MORE THAN FAVORABLE FOR SCT TSRA TO BECOME SFC BASED...AND WL THREATEN TO BECOME SEVERE ACRS FAR SE...MAINLY HAIL THREAT WHEN SLIGHTLY ELEVATED N OF BNDRY. SHOULD BE TWO DISTINCT AREAS OF PCPN THRU AFTN...WITH SECONDARY AREA OF SHRA DEVELOPING MID MORNING BACK IN COLDER AND MORE STABLE AIR WHERE STG FRONTOGENESIS. WL WATCH ENHANCEMENT INTO MIDDAY...WANING A BIT EARLY AFTN...BUT WITH BETTER PV FORCING BY LTR AFTN...WL SEE INCREASING COVERAGE ONCE AGAIN. TEST OF IFPS UPGRADE SUCCESSFUL. UPDATES OUT BY 1600Z. .FSD...NONE CHAPMAN
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 1, 10:30 AM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-IAZ001>003- 012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-021200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1130 AM CDT TUE OCT 1 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHWEST IOWA THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM STORM LAKE TO HORNICK. THE GREATEST THREAT WOULD BE HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE...ALONG WITH SPOTTY HEAVY RAINFALL ONE TO TWO INCHES. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FROM 200 PM THROUGH 700 PM SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM SPENCER TO SIOUX CITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AN UNSETTLED AND COOL WEATHER PATTERN WILL AFFECT SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND FAR NORTHEAST NEBRASKA THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND. THERE IS A CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN WEDNESDAY ASSOCIATED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. HOWEVER...A POTENTIALLY STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP IN THE ROCKIES BY THURSDAY...AND MOVE OVER THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. SIGNFICANT RAINFALL MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM...ESPECIALLY IN NORTHWEST IOWA...FAR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. ANOTHER PROBABLY WEAKER SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE AREA BY LATE SATURDAY...WITH A CHANCE OF A COLD RAIN.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 1, 1:09 PM CST, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
209 PM CDT TUE OCT 01 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0118 PM 6 N TABOR SD .88 INCH HAIL
10/01/02 BON HOMME REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0125 PM 1 S LESTERVILLE SD .88 INCH HAIL
10/01/02 YANKTON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0126 PM 3 NE LESTERVILLE SD .75 INCH HAIL
10/01/02 YANKTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0128 PM 12 SW HURLEY SD .75 INCH HAIL
10/01/02 TURNER REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0137 PM 8 NE UTICA SD 1 INCH HAIL
10/01/02 YANKTON
0150 PM HURLEY SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/01/02 TURNER
0150 PM 3 W HURLEY SD 1.25 INCH HAIL
10/01/02 TURNERThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, October 1, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, October 1, 2002
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- Damaging Winds in Kansas, October 1, 2002
- Heavy Rain in West Virginia, October 1 to 31, 2002
- Drought in New Jersey, October 1 to 31, 2002
- Drought in Colorado, October 1 to 31, 2002
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5322956.