Hail in South Dakota, July 5, 2003

Name: Hail in South Dakota, July 5, 2003
Start: 2003-07-05T13:45
End: 2003-07-05T13:45
Location: South Dakota

July 5, 2003 · NWS UNR · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

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Wind
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Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 5, 1:40 PM MST, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 1:40 PM MST, 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
240 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 2003

CURRENT WV IMAGERY SHOWS AN UPPER LOW OVER BC WITH BROAD ZONAL FLOW
EXTENDING FROM THE PAC NW EASTWARD ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS.
EMBEDDED SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY OVER WRN SD KICKED OFF SVR TSTMS OVER
AND NEAR THE BLKHLS SD EARLIER THIS AFTN. THIS IS FOLLOWED CLOSELY
BY ANOTHER SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY CROSSING ERN WY AND APPROACHING THE
BLKHLS...WHICH WILL CROSS WRN SD EARLY THIS EVE.

AT THE SFC...WEAK TROUGH EXTENDS FROM NW SD SOUTHWARD INTO NEB
PANHANDLE. ABUNDANT LL MOISTURE IS BEING PULLED NORTHWARD ON
INCREASING SOUTHERLY FLOW INTO WRN AND SC SD AS THE SFC TROUGH
STRENGTHENS.

MLCAPE OF 1500-2500J/KG SOUTHEAST OF THE BLACK HILLS THIS AFTN. WITH
SHORTWAVE PASSING THROUGH...EXPECT TO SEE STORMS INCREASE IN
COVERAGE THIS AFTN/EVE ESP TO THE EAST AND SE OF THE BLKHLS. SPC HAS
ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 645 VALID UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR
PORTIONS OF SW AND SC SD.

.UNR...NONE

GR

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 4:30 AM MST, 9 hours 15 minutes before

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
530 AM MDT SAT JUL 5 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN AND
CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY EAST OF A
LINE FROM FAITH TO SPEARFISH TO PINE RIDGE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH AND WIND GUSTS
GREATER THAN 60 MPH.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL TRACK ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  AS TEMPERATURES RAPIDLY WARM TODAY...
THIS DISTURBANCE WILL TRIGGER SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.  THESE STORMS WILL THEN TRACK INTO
CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH
THE EVENING HOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

A COOL FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION ON SUNDAY. AS THE COOL
FRONT APPROACHES CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SUNDAY AFTERNOON...SOME
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THIS AREA AND HAVE THE CHANCE OF
BECOMING SEVERE.

MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY AND
TUESDAY ACROSS THE REGION. THEN...AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL BUILD
INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND BRING DRIER WEATHER TO THE AREA FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THE WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ASSISTANCE MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 5, 8:38 AM MST, 5 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 11:30 AM MST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1230 PM MDT SAT JUL 05 2003

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

1225 PM    2 NW NEMO                 SD   .88 INCH HAIL
07/05/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jul 5, 11:50 AM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1250 PM MDT SAT JUL 05 2003

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

1240 PM    4 NW NEMO                 SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jul 5, 12:18 PM MST, 1 hour 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
118 PM MDT SAT JUL 05 2003

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

0100 PM    2 NE SILVER CITY          SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03   PENNINGTON                     EVENT DURATION 5
                                          MINUTES. REPORTED BY
                                          PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jul 5, 1:01 PM MST, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
201 PM MDT SAT JUL 05 2003

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

0127 PM    1 NE DEADWOOD             SD   .75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0129 PM    3 NE DEADWOOD             SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0132 PM    5 SW RAPID CITY           SD   .75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03   PENNINGTON

0142 PM    3 SW JOHNSON SIDING       SD   .75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03   PENNINGTON                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jul 5, 1:30 PM MST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
230 PM MDT SAT JUL 05 2003

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

0105 PM    2 NE SILVER CITY          SD   2.5 INCH HAIL
07/05/03   PENNINGTON

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pennington

When: July 5, 1:45 PM MST
Where: Pennington County, 3 mi SE of Rapid City
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 44.050, -103.167

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in South Dakota in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5373329.