Hail, Brule
- When
- June 24, 8:16 PM CST
- Where
- Brule County, 5 mi N of Chamberlain
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.867, -99.333
Hail in South Dakota, June 24, 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 24, 7:57 PM CST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 7:57 PM CST, 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 855 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2002 ZONES UPDATED EARLIER TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SEVERE STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG THE CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY/FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN COUNTIES...WITH A FEW REPORTS OF GOLFBALL TO TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL AROUND AND EAST OF CARTHAGE IN MINER COUNTY. LINE SEEMS TO BE HANGING PRETTY CLOSE TO THE BOUNDARY...WITH LITTLE EASTWARD MOVEMENT AT THIS TIME. WILL LET ZONES RIDE AS IS FOR NOW AND TAKE A CLOSER LOOK WHEN WATCH EXPIRES AT 04Z. .FSD...NONE HACKER
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 191 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:15 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 Pennsylvania, June 24 to 27, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 24 to 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, June 24, 2002
- Tornadoes in Minnesota, June 24, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 24, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 24, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 24, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, June 24, 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: 5306035.