Name: Hail in South Dakota, August 26, 2002
Start: 2002-08-26T13:31
End: 2002-08-26T13:57
Location: South Dakota

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 9:30 AM MST, 4 hours 1 minute 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
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 26, 11:47 AM MST, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1247 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002

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

1116 AM    3 E WANBLEE               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

1204 PM    MARTIN                    SD   1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   BENNETT

1229 PM    5 W MAURINE               SD   1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   PERKINS                        HAIL NEAR THE
                                          MEADE/PERKINS COUNTY LINE

Local storm report, Aug 26, 11:59 AM MST, 1 hour 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION TO WHICH COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1259 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002

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

1229 PM    5 W MAURINE               SD   1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   MEADE                          HAIL NEAR THE
                                          MEADE/PERKINS COUNTY LINE

Local storm report, Aug 26, 12:23 PM MST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
123 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002

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

1223 PM    6 N HOWES                 SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   MEADE

1223 PM    9 SW BIXBY                SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   PERKINS                        RECEIVED 4 INCHES OF RAIN

0100 PM    MAURINE                   SD   1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   MEADE                          GROUND WAS WHITE WITH
                                          QUARTER SIZED HAIL. A
                                          FEW DRIFTS OF HAIL WERE
                                          ALSO NOTED. REPORTED BY
                                          PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Aug 26, 12:41 PM MST, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
141 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002

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

1245 PM    13 SE ZEONA               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   PERKINS                        HAIL WAS FALLING ON AND
                                          OFF FOR 30 MINUTES
                                          BEGINNING AT 1245 PM MDT.

Local storm report, Aug 26, 1:22 PM MST, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
222 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002

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

0215 PM    7 SW ELM SPGS             SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   MEADE

0217 PM    5 SW ELM SPGS             SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   MEADE

The radar

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Event by event

3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pennington

When: August 26, 1:31 PM MST
Where: Pennington County, 1 mi N of Wicksville
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.117, -102.583

Hail, Pennington

When: August 26, 1:45 PM MST
Where: Pennington County, Boxelder
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: METEOROLOGIST(NON NWS)
Coordinates: 44.117, -103.067

Hail, Pennington

When: August 26, 1:57 PM MST
Where: Pennington County, Wasta
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.067, -102.450

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

More

Every storm in South Dakota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5310818, 5310819, 5310820.