Name: Hail in South Dakota, June 15, 2003
Start: 2003-06-15T15:00
End: 2003-06-15T15:15
Location: South Dakota

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Jun 15, 1:45 PM MST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 1:45 PM MST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
245 PM MDT SUN JUN 15 2003

LATEST SFC ANALYSIS PLACES LOW OVER SE MT WITH SEVERAL TROFS NOTED
ACROSS NE WY WRN SD. WV AND VIS REVEAL CONVECTIVE CLOUDS AND PRECIP
MOVING ACROSS BIG HORNS...ASSOCD WITH WEAK VORT MAX TOPPING UPPER
RIDGE. SFC OBS AND SATELLITE INDC A DRY LINE OVER WRN CAMPBELL CNTY
WY...WITH TD IN THE UPPER 30S AND 40S AS OPPOSED TO 50S ELSEWHERE.
KUDX INDC ISOLD TSTMS OVER BLACK HILLS AND S-CENT SD.

12Z MODELS INITIALIZE WELL AND SHOW GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH 60HRS.
TNGT WILL EXPECT SCT TSTMS OVER EXTREME NRN AND WRN ZONES AS WELL
AS BLACK HILLS. ISOLD EVENING CONVECTION IS ANTICIPATED OVER THE SD
PLAINS...MAINLY S-CENT SD. WEAK VORT MAX WILL MOVE ACROSS SE MT/ND
TNGT. WITH AN UNSTABLE ATMO IN PLACE WITH AMPLE MOISTURE AND GOOD
HEATING TODAY TSTMS ARE EXPECTED. MANY SFC FEATURES ASSOCD WITH
UPPER DYNAMICS SUCH AS DRY LINE AND TWO SFC TROFS ACROSS WRN SD.
MAIN ENERGY WILL REMAIN N OF CWFA...HOWEVER NRN ZONES AND NRN
PORTIONS OF WRN ZONES IN NE WY WILL SEE ENOUGH UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT
TO ENHANCE HEATING AND SFC FEATURES FOR SCT TSTMS TONIGHT. ADEQUATE
INSTABILITY WILL COMBINE WITH FAVORABLE SHEAR PROFILES FOR SOME
STORMS TO BE SEVERE THIS EVENING MAINLY EXTREME NE WY AND NW SD.

IN THE EXTENDED WILL SEE SPLIT FLOW ALOFT THROUGH MID WEEK...WITH
NRN STREAM RIDGING AND SRN STREAM TROF. PATTERN SHIFTS A BIT THU/FRI
WITH RIDGE DOMINATING CENT U.S. AS SW U.S. CLOSED LOW DEVELOPS. INTO
THE WEEKEND THIS DEVELOPS INTO A BROAD NW U.S. UPPER LOW AS CENT
U.S. RIDGE BREAKS DOWN. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH PREVIOUS RUNS.

MODEL GUIDANCE LOOKS GOOD AND HAVE NOT CHANGED MUCH.

.UNR...NONE.

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:40 AM MST, 9 hours 20 minutes before

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-161300-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
640 AM MDT SUN JUN 15 2003

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THERE IS
A SLIGHT RISK SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE OVER
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA WITH THE PRIMARY
THREAT BEING HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH. SOME OF THESE STORMS OVER
NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA AND THE BLACK HILLS MAY MOVE SLOWLY
PRODUCING SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA
AFTER MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

MONDAY WILL SEE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
ENTIRE AREA ONCE AGAIN. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE
THE SLOW MOVEMENT IN A VERY MOIST ENVIRONMENT...CREATING A POTENTIAL
FOR SOME FLASH FLOODING. THE AREAS OF GREATEST CONCERN ARE IN AND
AROUND THE BLACK HILLS...FAR SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST
WYOMING. A COUPLE OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AS WELL...
ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THE BLACK HILLS WITH HAIL THE PRIMARY
THREAT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
ACROSS THE AREA. TUESDAY MAY SEE ANOTHER DAY WHERE SOME LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR...ESPECIALLY OVER THE BLACK HILLS.  MORE
ORGANIZED STORMS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED FOR FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 2:59 PM MST, 1 minute before

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Custer

When: June 15, 3:00 PM MST to 3:15 PM MST
Where: Custer County, 6 mi NW of Custer
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 43.833, -103.683

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 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5363965.