Hail, Beadle
- When
- July 14, 6:10 AM CST
- Where
- Beadle County, 9 mi NE of Yale
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.533, -97.850
Hail in South Dakota, July 14, 2003
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 Jul 14, 1:52 AM CST, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 1:52 AM CST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 252 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 ...CONVECTIVE CHANCES/SEVERITY REMAIN THE CONCERN THRU THE SHORT TERM... SYNOPSIS...00Z OBJECTIVE UPPER AIR ANALYSIS INDCD FLAT RIDGE ACROSS THE SW US...NW FLOW ACROSS THE PLAINS AND A MEAN DEEP TROF OVR THE ERN US. SHRTWV OF INTEREST AT H5 WAS OVR MT/ID AT 00Z. STRNG ELEVATED MIXED LAYER WAS PRESENT OVR THE NRN PLAINS SEEN AT H7 WITH +18 AT KRAP. MOISTURE RETURN CONTINUED AT H85 AHEAD OF CDFNT FM MANITOBA SWWD INTO MT. H85 DPS WERE RUNNING FM +10 TO +15. 06Z SUBJECTIVE MSAS SFC ANAL INDCD LO PRES OVR CNTRL SD. CDFNT EXTNDD NE FM THE LO ACRS ERN ND. FORECAST...CURRENT 40KT LO LVL JET FM CNTRL KS INTO S-CNTRL SD RESPONSIBLE FOR CURRENT ACCUS FIELD DEVELOPING FM NW SD SE TO NEAR K9V9. THIS SEEMS TO BE THE ERN EDGE OF THE STNG CAPPING. TRW SHLD CONT TO DVLP ALONG THIS NRN/ERN EDGE OF CAP AND MV E/SE THRU THE MORNING AS THE LO LVL JET VEERS. CDFNT WL MV INTO THE CNTRL FA BY 18Z AND THRU THE SE FA BY 03Z. ATMO EXPECTED TO RECOVER QUICKLY DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF UNTAPPED UNSTABLE BOUNDARY LAYER AIR TO THE SOUTHWEST OF MORNING TRW. ETA SFC DPS SEEM TO HIGH...BUT NEVERTHELESS BY LATE AFTERNOON MLCAPE OF 3000-4000 J/KG EXPECTED ACROSS THE SE CWA. PROBLEM WILL BE CAPPING THOUGH AS H7 THERMAL RIDGE RIDES OVR CWA. AS MT SHRTWV APPROACHES CDFNT BY LATE AFTERNOON...MID LVL CAA WILL LEAD TO A NARROW CORRIDOR OF WEAKER CIN EXPECTED NR THE FNT OVR SRN MN INTO NW IA. SFC CONVERGENCE AND WEAKEN INVERSION SHLD LEAD TO ISO/SCT TRW DVLPMNT BY LATE AFTERNOON OVR THIS AREA. DEEP LAYER SHEAR OF 40-50 KTS WL BE SUFFICIENT FOR ORGANIZED SVR STORMS. SPC HAS SERN CWA IN MOD RISK AND WL MENTION SVR IN THESE ZONES. WL RAISE GOING HIGHS IN THE W TODAY AS MID LVL CAP SHLD KEEP SKIES MC AND WITH GOOD MIXING...SHLD SEE TMPS TO NR H85 MIX OUT TMPS. TRW CLRS CWA BY MIDNIGHT AND WL HAVE ZONES DRY AFTER THAT. WL REDUCE CHC POPS TO SCHC FOR TUESDAY NIGHT IN THE NW FA. GOOD LO LVL JET FM WRN NEB INTO WRN SD...BUT LITTLE IN THE WAY TO FOCUS AN MCS IN OUR CWA. WL ALSO REMOVE TRW FM WED AS BOUNDARIES STAY N AND W OF CWA. BETTER CHCS FOR CONVECTION WILL BE WED NIGHT AS WK SFC BOUNDARY SLIDES S INTO CWA AND 40 KT LO LVL JET IMPINGES ON BOUNDARY. WL HAVE THE HIGHEST POPS IN THE EAST. .FSD...NONE BOUSTEAD
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 5:51 AM CST, 19 minutes before
SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-IAZ001>003- 012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 651 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING...NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MORE INTENSE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED BY LATE AFTERNOON... SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM YANKTON TO SIOUX FALLS TO MARSHALL. A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BECOME EXTREMELY UNSTABLE BY AFTERNOON OVER NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS THE FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP. DUE TO THE EXPECTED WIND SHEAR THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE...AND THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY...SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE...AND ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM SIOUX CITY TO JACKSON MINNESOTA...WHERE A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 3 PM. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:10 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 Missouri, July 14 to 18, 2003
- Tornadoes in Minnesota, July 14, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 14, 2003
- Hurricane in Texas, July 14 to 16, 2003
- Heat in California, July 14, 2003
- Lightning Strikes in Florida, July 14, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, July 14, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, July 14, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, July 14, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 14, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, July 14, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 14, 2003
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, July 2003
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: 5330218.