Hail, Perkins
- When
- July 19, 4:05 PM MST to 4:20 PM MST
- Where
- Perkins County, 9 mi NW of Meadow
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.633, -102.350
Hail in South Dakota, July 19, 2002
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
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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 1:25 PM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 1:25 PM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 225 PM MDT FRI JUL 19 2002 FAIRLY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS EXIST AS MUCH OF ERN WY AND WRN SD NEAR CONVECTIVE TEMP AS INDICATED BY LLVL DWPTS BEGINNING TO MIX OUT. 88D HAS DETECTED A CELL W OF LUSK AND ANOTHER ONE ENTERING NW PERKINGS CO. SHEAR IS LACKING EARLY ON SO EXPECT MOST STORMS TO BE MULTICELL RATHER THAN SUPERCELL. SUPERCELLS WILL BE EASY TO PICK OUT TODAY AS THEIR MOTION SHOULD BE AT A RIGHT ANGLE TO THE MEAN WIND...SE AND SLOW. MDLS INDICATE UPPER SUPPORT IN THE FORM OF UPPER DIVERGENCE AFTER 00Z AND LLVL SUPPORT IN FORM OF WK WAA. EXPECT CONVECTION TO BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED THIS EVENING AS SHEAR IMPROVES AS DOES SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT. GIVEN LACKING CAP AND WK LIFT TONIGHT COULD BE THE BEST CHC OF -TSRA WEVE HAD IN A WHILE. AFTER TONIGHT...CD FNT WHICH IS EVIDENT IN NW MT ATTM WILL APPROACH AND MOVE THROUGH THE CWA SAT AND SAT NIGHT BRINGING COOLER AIR AND LLVL FORCING. AS RIDGE IS BROKEN DOWN BY SEVERAL WK WAVES...TSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL AS TEMPS COOL. EXTENDED STILL LOOKS LIKE A DAILY CHC FOR TSRA. .UNR...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 19, 2002
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, July 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: 5306404.