Hail in South Dakota, August 3, 2005

Name: Hail in South Dakota, August 3, 2005
Start: 2005-08-03T17:30
End: 2005-08-03T17:30
Location: South Dakota

August 3, 2005 · NWS FSD · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 3, 1:50 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 1:50 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
250 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2005

.DISCUSSION...
MAIN FCST PBLM WL BE WHEN TRW WL DEVELOP ACRS CWA TONIGHT.
ATTM...MID LEVEL CAP IN PLACE WHILE CDFNT IS MOVG THRU SRN CWA. CAP
IS NOT EXPECTED TO BREAK UNTIL THIS EVE WITH APPROACH OF S/W. CAP
SHUD BREAK FIRST ACRS WRN CWA AND COOLING WL SPREAD E DURING NITE.
TRW OVR WRN SD ASSOCD WITH THIS S/W SHUD CONT TO DEVELOP AS IT MOVES
EWD. NEXT QUESTION WL BE SVR WX THREAT. SINCE COOLER AIR ALOFT LAGS
WELL BEHIND FNT...AND LOW LEVELS BECOME MORE STABLE WITH INFLUX OF
COOLER AIR IN THE LOW LEVELS WITH TIME...THREAT OF SVR WX MAY BE
SOMEWHAT LIMITED. CUD SEE SVR STORMS OVR WRN CWA THIS EVE...BUT AS
NIGHT PROGRESSES MAY JUST TURN INTO RAIN EVENT...AS GUSTY WINDS
ASSOCD WITH STORMS MAY HAVE A HARD TIME REACHING SFC. STILL WITH
COLDER AIR ALOFT CUD SEE DECENT HAIL WITH SOME OF THE STORMS AS
SHEAR STILL FAIRLY GOOD.

LINGERING PRECIP OVR SERN CWA THU MORN...BUT CWA SHUD CLEAR OUT
NICELY WITH COOLER TEMPS AND DRIER AIR EXPECTED. SHUD REAMIN MILD ON
FRI WITH DRY AIR IN PLACE AND PLENTY OF SUNSHINE. WL WARM UP AGAIN
THIS WEEKEND AS RIDGE ALOFT BUILDS OVR NRN ROCKIES...BUT WL NOT BE
AS HUMID AS IT HAS BEEN. HUMIDITY SHUD RETURN NICELY BY MON AS RIDGE
AXIS SHIFTS EWD INTO PLAINS ALLOWING BEETER LLM TO RETURN. WL ALSO
BE HOT AGAIN MON INTO WED...WITH CDFNT MOVING THRU WED. WL KEEP DRY
FRI THRU TUES...WITH A CHC OF TRW ON WED.

&&

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

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 9:54 AM CST, 7 hours 36 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1054 AM CDT WED AUG 03 2005

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-041200-
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-
1054 AM CDT WED AUG 03 2005

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 OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AREAS SOUTH AND
EAST OF A LINE FROM TYNDALL TO SIOUX FALLS TO JACKSON MN LATE
AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER
WILL BE WIND GUST OF 60 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE WEST OF INTERSTATE 29 AFTER 4
PM.
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST
IOWA AFTER 6 PM.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:33 PM CST, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
533 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2005

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

0531 PM     HAIL             MOUNT VERNON            43.71N 98.26W
08/03/2005  1.00 INCH        DAVISON            SD   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

CJ

Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:38 PM CST, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
538 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2005

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

0538 PM     HAIL             MOUNT VERNON            43.71N 98.26W
08/03/2005  1.75 INCH        DAVISON            SD   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

CJ

Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:42 PM CST, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
542 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2005

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

0542 PM     HAIL             WOONSOCKET              44.05N 98.27W
08/03/2005  0.75 INCH        SANBORN            SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CJ

Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:48 PM CST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
548 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2005

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

0545 PM     HAIL             WOONSOCKET              44.05N 98.27W
08/03/2005  1.50 INCH        SANBORN            SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CJ

Local storm report, Aug 3, 5:00 PM CST, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
600 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2005

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

0558 PM     HAIL             1 NW MITCHELL           43.74N 98.05W
08/03/2005  0.75 INCH        DAVISON            SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CJ

Local storm report, Aug 3, 5:03 PM CST, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
603 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2005

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

0601 PM     HAIL             MITCHELL                43.73N 98.03W
08/03/2005  1.00 INCH        DAVISON            SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CJ

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:28 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Davison

When: August 3, 5:30 PM CST
Where: Davison County, 5 mi S of Mitchell
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 43.650, -98.017

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

Every storm in South Dakota in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in South Dakota, August 2005

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: 5471285.