Hail, Ziebach
- When
- August 11, 1:23 PM MST
- Where
- Ziebach County, Dupree
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.050, -101.583
Hail in South Dakota, August 11, 2002
2 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
- 2
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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 10:25 AM MST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 10:25 AM MST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1125 AM MDT SUN AUG 11 2002 LATEST SFC ANALYSIS REVEALS FROPA AT KGCC AND K2WX. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW LINE OF CLOUDS JUST BEHIND FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND THEN EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER WELL BEHIND FRONT. KUDX RADAR PICKING UP SOME OF THE MID-LEVEL CLOUDS IN THE WARM SECTOR AHEAD OF FRONT ALONG THE SD/ND BORDER. CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE ON TRACK. HAVE UPDATED TO REMOVE MORNING WORDING AND TO UPDATE WINDS BASED ON FRONT POSITION AND MOVEMENT THIS AFTERNOON. .UNR...NONE. 99
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Ziebach
- When
- August 11, 1:40 PM MST
- Where
- Ziebach County, 5 mi E of Dupree
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.050, -101.483
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
- Heat in Pennsylvania, August 11 to 20, 2002
- Tornado in North Dakota, August 11, 2002
- Heat in New Jersey, August 11 to 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 11, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, August 11, 2002
- Wildfire in California, August 11 to 15, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 11 to 12, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Ohio, August 11, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, August 11 to 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 11, 2002
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, August 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: 5310703, 5310704.