South Dakota, 2003

Hail in South Dakota, July 3, 2003

July 3, 2003 · NWS FSD · 2 events in 1 county or zone

2 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

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
2

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 3, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
825 PM CDT THU JUL 3 2003

00Z OBJECTIVE SFC ANALYSIS INDCD BAROCLINIC ZONE FM NR KSLB WWD TO S
OF KYKN. WK SFC LO WAS NR KOFK. SYNOPTIC CDFNT WAS JUST MOVING INTO
NW SD WITH DRYLINE/SFC TROF S THRU WRN SD INTO WRN NEB. AREA 88-DS
INDC RW/TRW PUSHING NE INTO NRN NEB AND WL MV INTO SRN SD BY 02Z.
THIS COMPLEX SHLD GRADUALLY WEAKEN AS IT MOVES NE INTO OUR AREA AS
CONVECTION IS LARGELY DRIVEN BY INSOLATION. OTHER CONVECTION CONTS
TO INCREASE ACROSS WRN SD...AND THIS TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONT
OVERNIGHT AS 45 KT LO LVL JET INCREASES WEST OF CURRENT NEB COMPLEX.
ADDITIONAL DVLPMENT IS ALSO LIKELY ALONG STRNRY BOUNDARY W OF
CURRENT COMPLEX AND AHEAD OF WRN SD ACTIVITY AFTR 05Z. GIVEN THE
MAGNITUDE OF LO LVL JET ACROSS CNTRL NEB FOCUSING ON STNRY BOUNDARY
ACROSS NRN NEB...MCS DVLPMNT LIKELY ALONG SD/NEB BORDER INTO SRN SD.
LIFTING AN ELEVATED PARCEL WLD GIVE AOA 2000 J/KG OF CAPE WITH SHEAR
ABOVE THE INVERSION OF 40 KTS. THUS ELEVATED SVR WL BE POSSIBLE THRU
THE NIGHT ACROSS CWA. HEAVY RAIN THOUGH IS THE MAIN THREAT AS FLASH
FLOOD GUIDANCE IN SRN CWA RUNNING AROUND 2 INCHES. WL CONSIDER FLASH
FLOOD WATCH OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS ONCE WE HAVE MORE
CONFIDENCE IN WHERE EVOLUTION OF SYSTEM WL TAKE PLACE. AS FAR AS
ZONES...WL UPDATE TO INCREASE POPS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SRN
AREAS. OTHERWISE TMPS AND WINDS SEEM ON TRACK.

UPDATED GRIDS AND ZONES OUT BY 9 PM.

.FSD...NONE

BOUSTEAD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:08 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Douglas

When
July 3, 9:10 PM CST
Where
Douglas County, 4 mi W of Corsica
Measured
1.25 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
43.417, -98.483

Hail, Douglas

When
July 3, 9:10 PM CST to 9:25 PM CST
Where
Douglas County, 4 mi N of Armour
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
43.367, -98.350

Large hail fell in a strip four miles wide and about 8 miles long, damaging crops, especially corn. The amount of crop damage was not known.

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 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: 5378242, 5378243.