South Dakota, 2002

Hail in South Dakota, August 11, 2002

August 11, 2002 · NWS FSD · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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

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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 11, 6:55 PM CST, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 6:55 PM CST, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
755 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

UPDATED AROUND 7 PM TO COVER CHANGES TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCHES.  ALSO MADE SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO BACK OFF BEST
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ACROSS EASTERN COUNTIES.  STILL EXPECTING
CURRENT LINE OF TSRA ACROSS CENTRAL SD TO FORM A COHESIVE LINE WITH
THREAT OF DAMAGING WIND SPREADING EAST ACROSS THE CWA OVERNIGHT.

NO OTHER CHANGES NEEDED AT THIS TIME.

FSD...NONE
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 11, 2:09 PM CST, 5 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
309 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0340 AM    15 E FAIRFAX              SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   GREGORY                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0415 AM    6 SW MITCHELL             SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   DAVISON                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
Local storm report, Aug 11, 3:37 PM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
437 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0430 AM    5 S WAKONDA               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   CLAY                           REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 6:30 PM CST, 1 hour before
SDZ038-050-052-053-120100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
730 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 590 FOR GREGORY COUNTY HAS BEEN
REPLACED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 594...
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 589 EXTENDED BY WATCH NUMBER 594 FOR
JERAULD...BEADLE...AND SANBORN COUNTIES...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH...NUMBER 594...UNTIL MIDNIGHT...FOR MUCH OF EASTERN SOUTH
DAKOTA...EXCEPT AREAS ROUGHLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM BROOKINGS
TO YANKTON.  THIS WATCH REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH NUMBER 590 FOR GREGORY COUNTY...AND EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WATCH
FOR JERAULD...BEADLE...AND SANBORN COUNTIES.

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:28 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Jerauld

When
August 11, 7:30 PM CST
Where
Jerauld County, 20 mi NW of Wessington Spgs
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
44.283, -98.850

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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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: 5312622.