Name: Hail in South Dakota, June 5, 2004
Start: 2004-06-05T15:45
End: 2004-06-05T15:45
Location: South Dakota

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

Open the live radar over this ground

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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 5, 1:50 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 1:50 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
250 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004

.DISCUSSION...

RELATIVE INSTABILITY AXIS NR SFC TROF IN ERN SD ATTM SHOULD BE ABLE
TO SET OFF SCT TSTMS IN NEXT HOUR OR SO AS AIR MASS CONTINUES TO
HEAT OUT. THEN SCT SHWRS/TSTMS SHOULD MOVE OVER SWRN MN AND NWRN IA
THIS EVE AS TROF MOVES E OF AREA. CHC OF ANY SVR SHOULD MAINLY BE
FM BKX TO MML UNDER BTR COLD AIR ALOFT AND BEST CONVERGENCE ALG FNT.
THEN SUBSIDENCE AND WEAK HIGH PRES MOVG ESE OVR CWA REST OF NGT...
AND WITH LINGERING LOW LVL MOISTURE AND GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING...
WL PUT PATCHY FOG LATE IN ENTIRE CWA. REALLY NICE DAY FOR SUN WITH
RETURN SSELY FLOW SETTING UP AND GOOD MODERATION OF AIR MASS WITH
MID LVL WARM ADVECTION MIXING DOWN AND STG SUN. NOT QUITE AS MUCH
CAPPING EXPCD AS PREV MODELS RUNS FOR SUN NGT INTO EXTD. SO WITH
PROXIMITY OF MID AND LOW LVL BOUNDARY ESP IN NRN CWA...WILL ADD
CHC MAINLY NOCTURNAL TSTMS DURG PERIOD. ALREADY HAVE CHC TSTMS FOR
TUE NGT THRU THU NGT AND WILL KEEP THAT AS DYNAMICS AND TROPICAL
CONNECTION GET BTR WITH APPROACH OF MAIN UPR TROF FM WRN U.S.
ETA SEEMS TO HAVE ITS TYPICAL SOUTH BIAS WITH BOUNDARY...WITH GFS
BTR...BUT A LIT FURTHER S THAN PREV RUNS. WILL HAVE TO WATCH
ENTIRE FCST PERIOD FOR ALL OR NOTHING NOCTURNAL CAP RIDERS. LOW
LVL CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY MAY MAKE UP FOR RELATIVE LACK OF
UPPER LVL DYNAMICS... GOOD FOR SOME HEAVY RAIN MCSS. OTRW TYPICAL
SUMMER PATTERN WITH PLENTY OF WARMTH AND HUMIDITY EXPCD...UNTIL
COOL AIR BREAKDOWN BY THE WEEKEND.

&&

.FSD...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
MN...NONE.
IA...NONE.
NE...NONE.

&&

RYRHOLM

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 9:54 AM CST, 5 hours 51 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:45 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Beadle

When: June 5, 3:45 PM CST
Where: Beadle County, 4 mi W of Huron
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.350, -98.300

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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5410139.