Hail, Hutchinson
- When
- June 25, 2:58 PM CST
- Where
- Hutchinson County, 5 mi W of Dimock
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.467, -98.083
Hail in South Dakota, June 25, 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 25, 2:10 PM CST, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:10 PM CST, 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 310 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 HAVE FELT WE HAVE BETTER STRM POTENTL THAN WE WERE ERYR CARRYNG SINCE NOTED THAT ETA AND MESOETA AT 12Z DID A GOOD JOB OF BACKNG LOW LVL FLO THIS AFTN. THIS ACTUALLY SEEMS TO BE COMNG ABOUT DESPITE WEAKR TREND OF 18Z MESOETA. THIS CUD LEAD TO SIGNIFCNT SVR STRM DVLPMNT AS PER RECENT SPC MCD. WILL GO SCT TSTMS PSBLY SVR MOST OF FCST AREA JUST LEAVNG SLGT CHC TSTMS FAR NW INCLUDG HON. THREAT OF STRMS SHUD CONT MOST OF TNGT SERN HALF OF AREA BUT WILL STILL CUT OFF BY MRNG....GOING PTCLDY TO MOSUNNY AND LESS HEAT AND HUMIDITY FOR WED. AS SHRTWV DIGS TO E AND WE GET NRLY FLOW...WITH RDG VRY SLWLY BLDG BACK INTO NRN PLAINS...LOOKS LIKE GNLY DRY SVRL DAYS AS WE CURNTLY HAVE GOING. WILL KEEP THIS AND THO BY LAST DAY OF PD...NEXT TUE...THERE CUD BE A THRAET FROM SFC BOUNDRY MOVG INTO AREA...TEMPS WILL BE VRY WRM AND UPR DYNAMICS DONT LOOK THAT GREAT...SO WILL CONT DAY 7 W/O TSTMS FOR NOW. IN OTHER WORDS THE FCST WILL BE PCPN FREE AFTR TNGT. FWC TEMP GUIDNCE AND ITS GREATER DIURNAL RANGE LOOKS BETTER THAN MAV. .FSD...NONE WILLIAMS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1100 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 *** THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERTAINS ONLY TO CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS. *** .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM NORTHWEST MINNESOTA THROUGH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA TO WESTERN NEBRASKA. AS THIS FRONT MOVES EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG IT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE THIS EVENING OVER PARTS OF FAR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA AND EXTREME NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. BEHIND THE FRONT COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL SPREAD SOUTHEAST OVER THE AREA LATER TONIGHT...ENDING THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS. SDZ038>040-052>056-260500- BEADLE-KINGSBURY-BROOKINGS-JERAULD-SANBORN-MINER-LAKE-MOODY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HURON...BROOKINGS... 1100 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 * FORECAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT: THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...BUT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED IN THIS AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER: NONE. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION: SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SDZ050-057>067-MNZ071-072-080-089-097-098-IAZ001-260500- LINCOLN-LYON-PIPESTONE-MURRAY-BRULE-AURORA-DAVISON-HANSON-MCCOOK- MINNEHAHA-ROCK-NOBLES-GREGORY-CHARLES MIX-DOUGLAS-HUTCHINSON-TURNER- LINCOLN-LYON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PIPESTONE...SLAYTON...CHAMBERLAIN...MITCHELL... SIOUX FALLS...LUVERNE...WORTHINGTON...ROCK RAPIDS... 1100 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 * FORECAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT: THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM COULD BE SEVERE EARLY THIS EVENING. * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER: SEVERE WINDS...GUSTS EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN 58 MPH. LARGE HAIL...DIME SIZE OR LARGER. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION: SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE AFTER 500 PM CDT. SDZ068>071-MNZ081-090-IAZ002-003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-260500- COTTONWOOD-JACKSON-OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-BON HOMME-YANKTON-CLAY-UNION- SIOUX-OBRIEN-CLAY-PLYMOUTH-CHEROKEE-BUENA VISTA-DIXON-DAKOTA-WOODBURY- IDA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPIRIT LAKE...YANKTON...VERMILLION...ELK POINT... SIOUX CENTER...SPENCER...LE MARS...STORM LAKE...SIOUX CITY... 1100 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 * FORECAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT: THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATE AFTERNOON AND THEN BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING COULD BE SEVERE. * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER: SEVERE WINDS...GUSTS EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN 58 MPH. LARGE HAIL...DIME SIZE OR LARGER. HEAVY RAIN. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION: SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE AFTER 600 PM CDT.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:59 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 Maryland, June 25 to 26, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, June 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 25, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 25, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 25, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New York, June 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 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: 5306049.