1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 May 26, 8:05 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 905 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 HAV ALRDY UPDATED FCST WITH TSTMS DECREASING TO SHWRS AND DSPTG. TSTMS OVR NW IA DCRSD AS STORMS TO S OVR ERN NE AND SW IA INCRSD WHERE BTR MSTR AND LIFTD HAD POOLED. TSTMS OVR SE SD AND SW MN THAT DVLPD FM BNDRY OF LATE AFTN TSTMS DCRSD AS THEY MOVED IN MORE STABLE RAIN COOLED AIR. CONTD ISOLTD SHWRS IN PARTS OF SE SD AND FAR SW MN UNTIL ARND 03Z AND OVR NW IA AND FAR SW MN ZNS UNTIL MDNGT OR A LTL AFTER. PTCLDY SKIES OVR CWA LATER TNGT. TEMPS IN NRN PART OF CWA...TO NRN OF WK FNT BMDRY ACRS SE SD AND SRN MN...WILL BE A LTL COOLR THEN TEMPS TO S OF THE BNDRY. ERLY FCST TEMPS LOOK GOOD. .FSD...NONE 45
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
739 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0452 PM 4 W MARION SD 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 TURNER REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0500 PM MARION SD 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 TURNER REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0508 PM 1 S MONROE SD 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 TURNER REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0515 PM 12 W SIOUX FALLS SD 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 MINNEHAHA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER AT WALL LAKE.
0537 PM 1 NW SIOUX FALLS ARPT SD 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 MINNEHAHA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0545 PM SIOUX FALLS ARPT SD .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 MINNEHAHA
0545 PM RENNER SD 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 MINNEHAHA REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0604 PM 5 S PARKSTON SD .88 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 HUTCHINSON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:01 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a camper, damaging a television set, refrigerator, and microwave oven.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, May 2002
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: 5295700.