Name: Hail in South Dakota, June 11, 2003
Start: 2003-06-11T20:40
End: 2003-06-11T20:40
Location: South Dakota

Where it happened

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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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
825 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

GOING FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE THIS EVENING.  SEVERE STORMS JUST
OUTSIDE THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE CWA AS OF 0120Z.  TWEAKED WEATHER
GRIDS TO HANG ONTO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN FAR WEST LATER INTO
THE EVENING AS CURRENT STORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY.  ZONE FORECAST
WORDING ALREADY HAD THIS COVERED ALRIGHT.  UPDATED ZONES EARLIER TO
INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN HALF OF CWA.  NO FURTHER UPDATES
NEEDED AT THIS TIME.

.FSD...NONE

 HACKER

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 10:00 AM CST, 10 hours 40 minutes before

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-IAZ001>003-
012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-121200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1100 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...AND SPREAD EAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE MAINLY WEST
OF INTERSTATE 29. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WOULD BE LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND
NIGHT SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
REDEVELOPING ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. THESE
STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON
WEST OF THE JAMES RIVER.
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 8 PM THIS EVENING EAST
OF THE JAMES
RIVER.

&&

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), 198 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:39 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Brule

When: June 11, 8:40 PM CST
Where: Brule County, 4 mi W of Pukwana
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 43.783, -99.267

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.

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More

Every storm in South Dakota in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in South Dakota, June 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: 5366182.