Hail, Edmunds
- When
- August 28, 1:55 PM CST
- Where
- Edmunds County, 8 mi S of Hosmer
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.450, -99.483
Hail in South Dakota, August 28, 2002
11 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
- 11
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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 28, 10:04 AM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 10:04 AM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/N-EAST SD AND W-CENTRAL MN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 1104 AM CDT WED AUG 28 2002 CURRENTLY HAVE CONVECTION ALREADY OCCURRING IN WRN COUNTIES ALONG WITH AN ISOLATED STORM IN THE EAST. EARLIER HAD SLIGHTLY MORE TSRA IN ERN CWA BUT HAVE SINCE DISSIPATED. RUC AND MESOETA BOTH BRINGING ANOTHER S/W ACROSS THE STATE TODAY. FEEL ANOTHER CHANCE FOR AN ISOLATED TSRA MAY COME THIS AFTERNOON AS THE S/W MOVES OVER CWA BY 21Z. WITH MINIMAL CLOUD COVER ACROSS CENTRAL AND ERN CWA ATTM...DAYTIME HEATING WILL HELP TO DESTABILIZE ATMOSPHERE ALONG WITH SUFFICIENT MOISTURE ALREADY IN PLACE. CURRENT FCST LOOKS TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON CURRENT SITUATION WITH CHANCE OF TSRA...HIGH TEMPS REACHING THE LOW TO MID 80S ACROSS CWA. NO UPDATE NEEDED AT THIS TIME. .ABR...NONE. ALBRECHT
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:52 UTC.
Event by event
11 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Spink
- When
- August 28, 2:25 PM CST
- Where
- Spink County, 4 mi NW of Northville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.183, -98.633
Hail, Spink
- When
- August 28, 2:35 PM CST
- Where
- Spink County, 4 mi S of Redfield
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.817, -98.517
Hail, Spink
- When
- August 28, 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Spink County, 5 mi NW of Athol
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.067, -98.683
Hail, Brown
- When
- August 28, 3:25 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County, 8 mi S of Groton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.333, -98.100
Hail, Roberts
- When
- August 28, 3:55 PM CST
- Where
- Roberts County, 4 mi SW of Rosholt
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.833, -96.800
Hail, Roberts
- When
- August 28, 4:34 PM CST
- Where
- Roberts County, 3 mi W of Rosholt
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.867, -96.800
Hail, Clark
- When
- August 28, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Clark County, 4 mi NE of Carpenter
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.667, -97.850
Hail, Roberts
- When
- August 28, 5:05 PM CST
- Where
- Roberts County, 4 mi S of Rosholt
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.817, -96.733
Hail, Edmunds
- When
- August 28, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Edmunds County, 10 mi N of Ipswich
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.600, -99.033
Hail, McPherson
- When
- August 28, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- McPherson County, 8 mi S of Leola
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.600, -98.950
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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More
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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: 5317022, 5317017, 5317021, 5317018, 5317019, 5317020, 5317023, 5317025, 5317026, 5317024, 5317027.