1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 15, 9:30 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1030 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 .DISCUSSION... SCT TSTMS EXPCD TO MOVE THRU SWRN MN THRU MIDN ASSCD WITH BEST CONVERGENCE AND DYNAMICS WITH CDFNT MOVG SEWD OVR CWA. CDFNT WILL SERVE AS GOOD BOUNDARY FOR MAIN UPR WAVE AND ASSCD MOISTURE INFLOW DVLPG NEWD INTO SRN CWA LATER TNGT...WHICH WILL CONTINUE THRU WED. WITH MAJOR CONVERGENCE AND LIFT EXPCD...HEAVY RAINS WILL BE QUITE PSBL IN ESP FAR SRN CWA THRU WED. MIDN SHIFT SHOULD HAVE TIME TO REFINE THINKING ON A PSBL FLOOD WATCH AS SYS SHOULD BE SOMEWHAT SLOW TO EVOLVE. IN THE MEANTIME...UPDATED TO DROP TORNADO WATCH... BRING WIND SHIFT TO N FASTER THAN PREV FCST...AND HIT POPS IN SRN CWA A LIT HARDER LATE TNGT. OVERALL PREV FCST VERIFYING WELL. && .FSD...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. && RSR
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1131 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-161200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 1131 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS TO THE EAST ACROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA MIDDAY...BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AFTER 5 PM ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WEST OF THE JAMES RIVER. STORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AS THEY SPREAD TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST DURING THE EARLY EVENING...AND CONTINUE SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE LARGEST THREAT WITH STORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. SOME LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH INITIAL STORMS OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AND INTO THE NIGHT ACROSS NORTHWEST IOWA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...WITH A DECREASING THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL ACROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ON WEDNESDAY MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WINDOM TO WINNER. THE GREATEST THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE SOME TRAINING OF STORMS AND SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SPENCER TO YANKTON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 5 PM CDT WEST OF THE JAMES RIVER...AROUND 700 PM ALONG THE INTERSTATE 29 CORRIDOR...AND 900 PM FROM WINDOM TO STORM LAKE. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
517 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0445 PM HAIL 5 NE BANCROFT 44.54N 97.68W
06/15/2004 0.75 INCH KINGSBURY SD PUBLIC
&&
JRMPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
925 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0810 PM TSTM WND GST ARLINGTON 44.36N 97.13W
06/15/2004 70 MPH KINGSBURY SD PUBLIC
60 TO 70 MPH WINDS BROUGHT DOWN TREE BRANCHES...SIZE
UNKNOWN.
0850 PM HAIL BROOKINGS 44.31N 96.79W
06/15/2004 0.75 INCH BROOKINGS SD BROADCAST MEDIA
0850 PM HAIL BROOKINGS 44.31N 96.79W
06/15/2004 0.75 INCH BROOKINGS SD TRAINED SPOTTER
HAIL LASTED UNTIL 900 PM.
0858 PM HAIL BROOKINGS 44.31N 96.79W
06/15/2004 0.75 INCH BROOKINGS SD PUBLIC
&&
JHSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1004 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097- 098-NEZ013-014-SDZ038>040-053>056-058>071-160330- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BUENA VISTA IA-CHARLES MIX- CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE-DAVISON- DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-HANSON-HUTCHINSON-IDA IA-JACKSON MN- KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN-LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER- MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN-OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA- PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN-SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION- WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 1004 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 478 HAS EXPIRED... AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 29...MAINLY OVER SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. HOWEVER...THE THREAT OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED...AND THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED FROM THE MIDDLE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY...INTO NORTHWEST IOWA LATE TONIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WITH HAIL TO PENNY SIZE AND WINDS TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THESE STORMS LATE TONIGHT...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ALSO LIKELY.
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:10 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Large hail damaged vehicles and crops, including at least 240 acres of soybeans destroyed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, June 2004
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: 5409829.