1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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, 2:35 PM CST, 14 minutes earlier.
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</html>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.
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 TURNERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
318 PM CDT TUE OCT 01 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0249 PM 5 W LEBANON IA 1.5 INCH HAIL
10/01/02 SIOUX COVERED GROUND.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0312 PM SIOUX CENTER IA .75 INCH HAIL
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Large hail fell in a strip roughly five miles wide from west to east across the center part of the county. Widespread damage to corn and soybean crops occurred in the affected area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, October 2002
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: 5323023.