Hail, Perkins
- When
- August 26, 11:23 AM MST to 11:29 AM MST
- Where
- Perkins County, 9 mi SE of Zeona
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.100, -102.800
Hail in South Dakota, August 26, 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 26, 9:30 AM MST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 9:30 AM MST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1030 AM MDT MON AUG 26 2002 LATEST SFC ANALYSIS PLACES LOW OVER ERN CO WITH INVERTED TROF EXTENDING N OVER WRN SD. KUDX RADAR INDC SCT TSTMS OVER CENRAL SD ZONES MAINLY ALONG TROF AXIS. ONLY CLOUDS ON SATELLITE ARE ASSOC WITH TSTMS. CURRENT FORECAST ON TRACK. HAVE UPDATED TO FRESHEN WORDING ON ON-GOING PRECIP. REST OF PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD. .UNR...NONE 99
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 26, 6:01 AM MST, 5 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
701 AM MDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0643 AM 3 SW ALLEN SD .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 BENNETTSpecial weather statement, Aug 26, 6:04 AM MST, 5 hours 19 minutes before
SDZ012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-071-261600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 704 AM MDT MON AUG 26 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... .THREAT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH. .DISCUSSION...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMES UNSTABLE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA...LENDING SUPPORT TO STRONGER AND MORE ORGANIZED STORMS. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE LARGE HAIL. && COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THIS OUTLOOK ARE...ZIEBACH...HAAKON...JACKSON... MELLETTE...TRIPP...SHANNON...TODD...BENNETT...BUTTE...MEADE... LAWRENCE...PENNINGTON...CUSTER...FALL RIVER...CROOK...CAMPBELL AND WESTON. WCJIN-WYNE GR
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Perkins
- When
- August 26, 11:45 AM MST
- Where
- Perkins County, 13 mi SE of Zeona
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.067, -102.750
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
- Hail in Wyoming, August 26, 2002
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, August 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 26, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, August 26, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 26 to 27, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Kansas, August 26 to 27, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Nebraska, August 26, 2002
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, August 26 to 27, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 26 to 27, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, August 26, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Minnesota, August 26, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 26, 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: 5310814, 5310815.