Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 24, 2002

Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 24, 2002
Start: 2002-06-24T20:14
End: 2002-06-24T20:52
Location: South Dakota

June 24, 2002 · NWS ABR · 6 events in 3 counties and zones

5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

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Tropical storms and surge
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Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 6

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 Jun 24, 2:15 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:15 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/N-EAST SD AND W-CENTRAL MN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
315 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2002

MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS THE CONTINUING CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS
TONIGHT. CURRENT ANALYSIS SHOWS A FRONT SITUATED FROM NORTHEAST TO
SOUTHWEST OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CWA. A FEW SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG THE FRONT AS OF 19Z...MAINLY FROM
BIG STONE COUNTY IN MN TO JONES COUNTY. THIS FRONT LOOKS TO CONTINUE
TO BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING INTO
TONIGHT...BEFORE IT FINALLY PUSHES SOUTH AS A COLD FRONT TUESDAY.
WILL CARRY ABOUT A 50 POP FOR ALL BUT THE EXTREME NORTHWESTERN CWA
TONIGHT. CAPES RUNNING RIGHT AROUND 2200 J/KG IN THE SOUTHERN AND
EASTERN CWA...WITH LIS OF -4 OR GREATER. MAY SEE A FEW SEVERE STORMS
DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT WHERE THE INSTABILITY WILL BE THE STRONGEST.
HIGH PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE REGION BEHIND THE FRONT ON
TUESDAY...ALONG WITH AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE WESTERN
U.S. THIS WILL BE THE GENERAL PATTERN THEN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE
FORECAST PERIOD. EXPECT DRY CONDITIONS FROM TUESDAY RIGHT INTO THE
EXTENDED. TEMPERATURES SHOULD REMAIN FAIRLY WARM WITH PLENTY OF
SUNSHINE ASSOCIATED WITH THE HIGH PRESSURE...AND LOW LEVEL
TEMPERATURES REMAINING IN THE UPPER TEENS TO LOWER 20S.

.EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
CONDITIONS REMAIN DRY ACROSS THE EXTENDED PERIODS AS HIGH PRESSURE
WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD OVER THE AREA. A WEAK TROUGH APPROACHES THE
REGION ON SUNDAY...BUT THERE IS LITTLE MOISTURE AVAILABLE...SO WILL
JUST SEE AN INCREASE IN CLOUD COVER INTO SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THERE IS
A HINT FOR A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION INTO THE BEGINNING OF NEXT
WEEK...BUT WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY FOR NOW.

.ABR...NONE

PARKIN/MJA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 24, 4:11 PM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
511 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0510 PM    21 S KELDRON              SD   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   CORSON                         REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0515 PM    23 S KELDRON              SD   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/23/02   CORSON                         WOODEN FENCE OVERTURNED
                                          REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0730 PM    7 N PIERRE                SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   HUGHES                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0730 PM    7 SE LAPLANT              SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   DEWEY                          REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0730 PM    5 ESE SPRING CREEK COLONY SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   MCPHERSON                      REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0755 PM    3 SW FREDERICK            SD   TORNADO
06/23/02   BROWN                          SPOTTER SIGHTED TORNADO ON
                                          THE GROUNDREPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTERS

0800 PM    FT PIERRE                 SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   STANLEY                        REPORTED BY
SPOTTERS

0800 PM    PIERRE                    SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   HUGHES                         REPORTED BY
SPOTTERS

0815 PM    7 W AGAR                  SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   SULLY                          REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0853 PM    25 NNW ABERDEEN           SD   TORNADO
06/23/02   BROWN                          OFF DUTY WEATHER SERVICE
                                          EMPLOYEE SIGHTED TORNADO
                                          CONTINUING ON THE GROUND

0900 PM    PIERRE                    SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   HUGHES                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0835 PM    1 S FT PIERRE             SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   STANLEY                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0915 PM    1 SW ONIDA                SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   SULLY                          REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0955 PM    4 N WEST BEND REC AREA    SD   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   HUGHES                         REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

1039 PM    12 N REE HEIGHTS          SD   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   HAND                           REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

1130 PM    13 SW TULARE              SD   WIND DAMAGE
06/23/02   SPINK                          5-6 IN TREE LIMBS DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

1200 AM    8 SE CLARK                SD   .88 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   CLARK                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1224 AM    2 E NAPLES                SD   .88 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   HAMLIN                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1242 AM    4 NW HAYTI                SD   WIND DAMAGE
06/24/02   HAMLIN                         FARM EQUIPMENT
                                          OVERTURNEDREPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0110 AM    4 SW ONAKA                SD   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   FAULK                          REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0110 AM    1 SE TOLSTOY              SD   .88 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   POTTER                         REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0130 AM    1 N HAYTI                 SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   HAMLIN                         REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0115 AM    BRENTWOOD COLONY          SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   FAULK                          REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0230 AM    2 E DEVOE                 SD   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   FAULK                          REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC

0245 AM    BRISTOL                   SD   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   DAY                            REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Jun 24, 6:12 PM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
712 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0822 PM    BARNARD                   SD   4.50 INCH HAIL
06/23/02   BROWN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:13 UTC.

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Event by event

5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hamlin

When: June 24, 8:14 PM CST
Where: Hamlin County, 5 mi E of Lake Norden
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 44.583, -97.100

Thunderstorm Wind, Lyman

When: June 24, 8:15 PM CST
Where: Lyman County, 5 mi NE of Oacoma
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 43.850, -99.333

Seventy mph winds brought down many large tree branches.

Hail, Lyman

When: June 24, 8:15 PM CST
Where: Lyman County, 10 mi SW of Oacoma
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 43.700, -99.550

Hail, Lyman

When: June 24, 8:15 PM CST
Where: Lyman County, 5 mi NE of Oacoma
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 43.850, -99.333

Hail, Hamlin

When: June 24, 8:25 PM CST
Where: Hamlin County, 2 mi W of Dempster
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 44.633, -96.967

Hail, Deuel

When: June 24, 8:52 PM CST
Where: Deuel County, Clear Lake
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.750, -96.683

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in South Dakota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5306313, 5306224, 5306225, 5306314, 5306311, 5306312.