Hail, Charles Mix
- When
- August 11, 1:00 AM CST
- Where
- Charles Mix County, 3 mi SW of Dante
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -98.250
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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 10, 7:50 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 7:50 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 850 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 2002 OVERALL FORECAST IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE THIS EVENING. DEWPOINTS HAVE COME UP A LITTLE FASTER THAN EXPECTED WITH SUNSET DECOUPLING IN EASTERN PART OF CWA...AND THINK THIS COMBINED WITH WINDS PICKING UP AGAIN LATE TONIGHT SHOULD HOLD TEMPS UP FROM FORECAST UPPER 50S. LATE NIGHT ELEVATED TSRA CHANCES STILL LOOK GOOD AS LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW CONTINUES TO INCREASE AND EXPAND ACROSS THE PLAINS... AND DO NOT PLAN ANY MAJOR CHANGES WITH REGARDS TO PRECIP. WILL SEND UPDATE SHORTLY TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO TEMPS...MAINLY IN THE EASTERN AND FAR SOUTHERN COUNTIES. .FSD...NONE
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:01 UTC.
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: 5312616.