Hail, Ziebach
- When
- August 11, 2:40 PM MST
- Where
- Ziebach County, 14 mi SE of Dupree
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.900, -101.383
Hail in South Dakota, August 11, 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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 1:30 PM MST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 1:30 PM MST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 230 PM MDT SUN AUG 11 2002 LATEST SFC ANALYSIS PLACES COLD FRONT ALONG KBIS-KD07-KRCA LINE. SATELLITE INDC A NARROW LINE OF MID-LEVEL CLOUDS ALONG FRONT AND SOME CONVECTION ALONG THE PRE-FRONTAL TROF IN N-CENT SD. KUDX RADAR INDC LINE OF TSTMS MOVING INTO WRN WATCH BOX IN CENT SD ATTM. AND WARNINGS ARE BEGINNING TO BE ISSUED. SUFFICIENT SHEAR AND INSTABILITY EXISTS OVER ERN ZONES TO SUPPORT ISOLD SEVERE TSTMS. 12Z MODELS INITIALIZE WELL AND SHOW GOOD AGREEMENT. WILL EXPECT ERN HALF OF CWFA TO RECEIVE ISOLD TSTM ACTIVITY REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVE AS COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS VERY UNSTABLE AND ADEQUATELY MOIST ATMO. TO THE WEST WILL EXPECT SCT EVE SHRA AS UPPER JET DYNAMICS INTERACT TO ENHANCE OMEGA FIELDS OVER NE WY AND WRN SD THROUGH 06Z MON. ROBUST CAA OVERNIGHT AND INCREASING WINDS WILL MAKE FOR WINDY NIGHT AS CLOUDS QUICKLY CLEAR OUT. MON THRU EXTENDED PERIODS WILL SEE NW ZONAL FLOW ALOFT. NO REAL TEMP ADVECT PATTERN GETS ESTABLISHED...BUT WE WILL REMAIN IN COLD AIR SECTOR FOR MOST OF THE WEEK. OF COURSE WITH FEW CLOUDS...AUGUST SUNSHINE WILL WARM US UP INTO THE 80S BY MID WEEK. WEAK WAVES EXPECTED IN NW FLOW...BUT SHOULD REMAIN WELL N AND E OF CWFA THROUGH THE WEEK. MODEL GUIDANCE LOOKS GOOD AND HAVE STAYED CLOSE THROUGH EXTENDED PERIODS. .UNR...NONE. 99
The 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
- 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: 5310705.