Hail, Miner
- When
- June 21, 7:42 AM CST
- Where
- Miner County, 4 mi W of Howard
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.017, -97.617
Hail in South Dakota, June 21, 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 21, 2:20 AM CST, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:20 AM CST, 5 hours 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 320 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2002 MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT ON THE MAJOR FEATURES. GENERALLY USED A BLEND OF THE ETA/AVN FOR SHORT TERM TIMING OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN NE AND CENTRAL IA SHOULD LIFT NORTH INTO SD AND NORTHWEST IA TODAY. DIURNAL HEATING AND AN UPPER LEVEL WAVE MOVING ACROSS THE WARM FRONT SHOULD PROVIDE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE CWA TODAY INTO TONIGHT. TIMING IS TRICKY AS MODELS PUT A LOT OF EMPHASIS ON THIS MORNING...BUT BEST INSTABILITY OCCURS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. SPC OUTLOOK FOR SEVERE WEATHER LOOKS FINE. WITH THE WARM FRONT EXPECTED TO LIFT INTO NORTHERN SD TONIGHT...UPPER LEVEL CAP SHOULD LIMIT ANY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FOR SATURDAY...WITH ONLY LOW POPS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT. NEXT WAVE MOVING THROUGH THE UPPER LEVELS SHOULD PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. ONLY MINOR VARIATIONS OF A FEW DEGREES FROM THE MOST GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES. .FSD...NONE UMLAND
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:01 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
701 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0700 AM 1 W MONTROSE SD 1 INCH HAIL
06/21/02 MCCOOK REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:43 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
- Heat in Illinois, June 21 to 25, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, June 21 to 22, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Utah, June 21, 2002
- Flash Flood in Nevada, June 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Minnesota, June 21 to 22, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Michigan, June 21, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Utah, June 21, 2002
- Tornadoes in Iowa, June 21, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, June 21, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Minnesota, June 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 21, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5305937.