Hail, Turner
- When
- May 7, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Turner County, 5 mi SW of Hurley
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.233, -97.150
Hail in South Dakota, May 7, 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 May 7, 2:20 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:20 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 320 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 LOW LVL LIFTING BOUNDARY SOUTH OF CWA...BUT STG MID LVL BOUNDARY LIFTING WELL NORTH INTO CWA TNGT...WITH ABUNDANT GULF MOISTURE ON NOCTURNAL JET. THUS SEE NOT ONLY CHC SVR TSTMS FAR SERN CWA NEAR GOOD LOW LVL INSTABILITY...BUT CHC ELEVATED SVR FURTHER N IN CWA DURG NGT. AS MID SHIFT MENTIONED...AVN MODEL THE BEST WITH NO WIERD SOUTH/NORTH...DRY/WET BIASES. UNSURE HOW FAR WARM SECTOR WILL GET INTO NWRN IA WED...SO WILL COMPROMISE BTWN WARM/COOL FWC/MAV. ALSO DRY SLOT INTO SRN CWA FOR WED AFTN AND EVE...WITH COOL WINDY WRAPAROUND CLDS/SCT LGT PRECIP FOR MAINLY NRN CWA LATE WED INTO THU. NOT MUCH TIME FOR DISC ATTM WITH NEW WATCH IN SRN CWA...BUT NEXT MAIN CHC...WILL GO LKLY...WILL BE SAT...BUT BASICALLY DRY THEREAFTER. MRF SHOWS PSBLY SOMETHING TUE...BUT OTHER/NEW MODELS SLOWER AND WEAKER. OVERALL WARMING TREND FRI THRU TUE. .FSD...NONE. RYRHOLM
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 7, 3:26 PM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
426 PM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM 7 NW PLATTE SD .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 CHARLES MIX EVENT DURATION 5
MINUTES. REPORTED BY
STORM SPOTTER.Local storm report, May 7, 3:51 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
451 PM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0440 PM 6 SSE WHITE LAKE SD .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 AURORA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0445 PM 6 SSE WHITE LAKE SD .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 AURORA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, May 7, 4:12 PM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
512 PM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0455 PM 10 N FORESTBURG SD .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 SANBORN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, May 7, 4:17 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
517 PM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM 7 NNW MT VERNON SD .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 DAVISON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, May 7, 4:33 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
533 PM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PM 1 W LETCHER SD .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 SANBORN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
EVENT DURATION 2 MINUTES.Local storm report, May 7, 5:24 PM CST, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
624 PM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM LETCHER SD .5 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 SANBORN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND. EVENT DURATION
20 MINUTES.
0552 PM 4 SSW WHITE LAKE SD .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 AURORA HAIL COVERING GROUND.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0615 PM 7 SE PARKSTON SD .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 HUTCHINSON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
HAIL COVERING GROUND.The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:08 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
- Flash Flood in Alaska, May 7 to 11, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 7 to 9, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 7, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 7 to 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 7, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 7, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 7 to 8, 2002
- High Wind in Idaho, May 7, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alaska, May 7, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 7, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, May 7, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 7, 2002
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, May 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: 5293920.