Hail, Lincoln
- When
- June 2, 1:15 AM CST to 1:25 AM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 8 mi SW of Worthing
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.250, -96.883
Hail in South Dakota, June 2, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 1, 8:12 PM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 8:12 PM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 912 PM CDT SAT JUN 1 2002 UPDATED AROUND 00Z TO COVER ISOLATED...VERY HIGH BASED...SHRA/TSRA OVER MORE OF THE CWA. REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST LOOKS TO BE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE...WITH MOST UNCERTAINTY IN TIMING OF BEST TSRA CHANCES LATER TONIGHT. STARTING TO SEE SOME DEVELOPMENT NEAR THE LOW LEVEL WARM FRONT IN FAR SOUTHERN NEBRASKA...WHILE UPPER WAVE KICKING OUT OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES SPARKING STRONG TO SEVERE TSRA IN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. 12Z ETA AND 18Z ETA/AVN INDICATE A CONVECTIVELY INDUCED VORT MAX FROM THIS EVENINGS WESTERN NEBRASKA ACTIVITY MOVING NORTHEAST INTO OUR CWA BY LATE TONIGHT. HARD TO ARGUE WITH THIS GIVEN ONGOING PRECIP/DEVELOPMENT. WILL LEAVE HIGH POPS GOING AND STICK WITH CURRENT TIMING FOR NOW...WITH TSRA LIKELY BY LATE EVENING IN THE MORVR VALLEY...AROUND MIDNIGHT KHON-KFSD-KSPW AREAS...AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE NORTHEAST CWA. BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STILL LOOKS TO BE IN SOUTHERN COUNTIES... WHERE STABLE LAYER BECOMES MORE SHALLOW AS LOW LEVEL WINDS TURN FROM THE EAST...MORE TO THE SOUTHEAST AS LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES OVERNIGHT. NO FURTHER CHANGES TO GOING ZONES AT THIS TIME...BUT MAY CLEAN UP WORDING A LITTLE LATER THIS EVENING. .FSD...NONE HACKER
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:13 UTC.
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
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 2 to 6, 2002
- Wildfire in New Jersey, June 2 to 6, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 2, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 2 to 4, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 2 to 10, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, June 2, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 2, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Kentucky, June 2 to 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 2, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wyoming, June 2, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 2, 2002
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, June 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: 5305629.