1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 earlier.
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
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 LINEPRELIMINARY 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 LINEPRELIMINARY 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.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.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 MEADEThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Softball sized hail fell south of Elm Springs. The hail fell on open pasture and no damage or injuries were reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, August 2002
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: 5310821.