2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 31, 12:30 PM MST, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY 130 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2003 19Z SURFACE ANALYSIS HAD WEAK LOW OVER SOUTHEAST MT WITH COLD FRONT MOVING PAST KIDV. SHORTWAVE OVER ND/SD PUSHING BATCH OF PRECIPITATION OUT OF SOUTH CENTRAL SD. UNDER COOL AIR ALOFT ISOLATED -SHRA HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHWEST SD. NEXT SHORTWAVE OF INTEREST MOVING INTO OR. CONCERN THIS FORECAST MAINLY PRECIPITATION CHANCES. UPPER PATTERN REMAINS ACTIVE THIS FORECAST CYCLE. WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT OVER THE WESTERN 1/3RD OF THE US WILL BECOME MORE AMPLIFIED AS UPPER RIDGE DEVELOPS OVER THE WEST COAST. MEAN UPPER TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN 2/3RDS DEEPENS OVER THE CENTRAL US AND STAYS LONGER THAN PREVIOUS RUNS. HENCE...AN UNSETTLED PERIOD EXPECTED THROUGH MID-WEEK. TONIGHT...EXPECTED ISOLATED PRECIPITATION COVERAGE AS DIURNAL CYCLE MAKES A FEW -SHRA/TSRA THIS EVENING AND THEN WEAK SHORTWAVE MOVE FROM ID INTO THE CWA. FOCUS WILL LIKELY ALONG LOW/COOL FRONT AS IT SAGS SLOWLY SOUTH OVERNIGHT. LOWS NEAR GUIDANCE. SUNDAY...OR SHORTWAVE RACES INTO WY/MT WITH MODEST FORCING AHEAD OF IT. SURFACE LOW/COLD FRONT SHIFTS INTO NE...SO INSTABILITY WILL NOT BE APPRECIABLE...NOR WILL SHEAR. HOWEVER...EXPECT BETTER GENERAL TSRA COVERAGE TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF UPPER SUPPORT. HIGHS A BLEND OF POTENTIAL TEMPERATURES AND GUIDANCE. MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...AFTER LULL IN ACTIVITY LATE SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY MORNING...A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES MOVING SOUTH OUT OF CANADA WILL PROMOTE UNSETTLED WEATHER AND TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL. MAY BE TOO HIGH ON TEMPERATURES MID-WEEK...BUT GIVEN JUNE SUNSHINE IF WE GET ANY SUBSTANTIAL RAYS 70F GOOD BET. DRY AND SEASONABLE WEATHER RETURNS FRIDAY/SATURDAY. .UNR...NONE. HELGESON
SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-011200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 643 AM MDT SAT MAY 31 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE A DAILY CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS FROM SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds blew over and destroyed a mobile home near Slim Butte. An 18 year old man inside the home was injured. Another mobile home nearby had its roof ripped off.
Strong winds and hail broke windows and damaged siding, roofs, and skirting of 16 mobile homes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, May 2003
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: 5360206, 5360207, 5360208.