Hail, Jackson
- When
- May 23, 3:30 PM MST
- Where
- Jackson County, Kadoka
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.833, -101.517
Hail in South Dakota, May 23, 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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 23, 12:45 PM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 12:45 PM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 145 PM MDT FRI MAY 23 2003 WK S/W AND SFC TROF MVG ACRS FA THIS AFT AND EVNG WL CONT TO KICK OFF SCT SHWS/TSTMS...MAINLY EAST OF RAP. BEST CAPE AND INSTABILITY OVR SRN AND S-CENT AREAS. MAY BE AN ISOLD SVR STORM OR TWO IN S-CENT SD WHERE THE BEST SHEAR IS. SHWS/TSTMS SHLD END BEFORE MIDNIGHT AS TROF MVS E OF FA. UPPER RIDGE WL BUILD INTO FA FOR THE WEEKEND...BRINGING DRY WX AND TEMPS IN THE 70S TO LOWER 80S. NEXT CHC PCPN ON MONDAY AFT AND NIGHT AS S/W ROTATES ARD SW U.S. UPPER RIDGE. IN THE EXTENDED...UPPER RIDGE WL BRING TEMPS IN 80S AND DRY WX FOR TUES. MORE ACTIVE PATTERN SETTING UP FOR MIDDLE OF NEXT WK AND WL CONT CHC OF SHWS/TSTMS ON WED/THURS. LKS DRY FOR LATTER PART OF WK. WARM TEMPS SHLD CONT ON WED...BEFORE COOLING BACK TO SEASONABLE NORMS FOR THURS/FRI. .UNR...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 5:30 AM MST, 10 hours before
SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-241230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 630 AM MDT FRI MAY 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WILL SEE A DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...BUT SOME STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE SOME HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 23, 2:38 PM MST, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
338 PM MDT FRI MAY 23 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0325 AM 12 N PHILIP SD .88 INCH HAIL
05/23/03 HAAKON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Nebraska, May 23 to 24, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 23, 2003
- Flooding and Hail in West Virginia, May 23, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 23 to 24, 2003
- Hail in South Dakota, May 23, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 23 to 24, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 23, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 23, 2003
- Hail in Texas, May 23 to 24, 2003
- Hail in Colorado, May 23, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, May 23, 2003
- Volcanic Ash in Guam, May 23 to 25, 2003
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, May 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5358009.