Name: Hail in South Dakota, June 25, 2002
Start: 2002-06-25T16:53
End: 2002-06-25T16:53
Location: South Dakota

Where it happened

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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, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:10 PM CST, 2 hours 43 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

Local storm report, Jun 25, 3:35 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
435 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

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

0420 PM    9 SW EMERY                SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   HANSON                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0425 PM    8 E DIMOCK                SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   HUTCHINSON                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 25, 4:06 PM CST, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
506 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

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

0338 PM    5 W DIMOCK                SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   HUTCHINSON                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0501 PM    3 N SPRINGFIELD           SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   BON HOMME                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 25, 4:18 PM CST, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
518 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

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

0511 PM    3 N SPRINGFIELD           SD   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   BON HOMME                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 25, 4:31 PM CST, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
531 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

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

0511 PM    3 NE SPRINGFIELD          SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   BON HOMME                      REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 25, 4:44 PM CST, 9 minutes before

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The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:54 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Bon Homme

When: June 25, 4:53 PM CST
Where: Bon Homme County, 7 mi SW of Springfield
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.783, -97.983

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

More

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5306152.