Name: Hail in South Dakota, June 4, 2004
Start: 2004-06-04T16:45
End: 2004-06-04T17:00
Location: South Dakota

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 1:30 PM MST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 1:30 PM MST, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 5:21 AM MST, 11 hours 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
621 AM MDT FRI JUN 4 2004

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-051300-
BENNETT-BUTTE-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-HAAKON-
HARDING-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-JACKSON-MELLETTE-NORTHEASTERN CROOK-
NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-
NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-PERKINS-RAPID CITY-
SHANNON-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS-
SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-TODD-TRIPP-
WESTERN CROOK-WESTON-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-ZIEBACH-
621 AM MDT (721 AM CDT) FRI JUN 4 2004

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COMBINED WITH A SURFACE TROUGH WILL CROSS
THE NORTHERN PLAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BRINGING A
CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHEAST WYOMING AND ALL OF WESTERN AND
SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN
THREAT FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4
INCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST FOR SATURDAY FOR
THE BLACK HILLS AND SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA WITH A BETTER CHANCE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:40 PM MST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 4:00 PM MST, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
500 PM MDT FRI JUN 04 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0425 PM     HAIL             9 W GLAD VALLEY         45.40N 101.97W
06/04/2004  0.75 INCH        ZIEBACH            SD   PUBLIC

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The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Jackson

When: June 4, 4:45 PM MST to 5:00 PM MST
Where: Jackson County, 6 mi W of Wanblee
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 43.567, -101.783

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 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings in South Dakota, June 2004

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: 5406629.