Hail in South Dakota, June 7, 2005

Name: Hail in South Dakota, June 7, 2005
Start: 2005-06-07T18:02
End: 2005-06-07T18:02
Location: South Dakota

June 7, 2005 · NWS UNR · 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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 7, 12:50 PM MST, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 12:50 PM MST, 5 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
150 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2005

.SHORT TERM...UPPER LOW VCNTY SLC KICKING OFF SHORT WAVES MOVING
TOWARD THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. MAIN WAVE IS COMING INTO SWRN
WY...AND LEAD WAVE COMING UP FROM SERN WY FOR TOWARD NERN WY...MUCH
FARTHER WEST THAN MODELS HAVE PLACED IN WRN NE. AS A
RESULT...STRONGER SFC LOW NOW OVER CPR...WITH ANOTHER IN WRN NE
PUMPING 60+ DEWPOINTS INTO CNTRL SD. 18Z UNR SOUNDING IS VERY
UNSTABLE...WITH JUST A BIT OF NEG CAPE LEFT TO ERODE...WHICH WILL
OCCUR IN A FEW HOURS AS WINDS WILL SHIFT TO SE AND DEWPOINTS
INCREASE. FORECAST SOUNDINGS ALSO SHOW INCREASING SHEAR BY EVENING.
AS SHORT WAVE MOVES NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA BY MORNING...WITH
CLEARING OVER THE EASTERN ZONES AND SOME WRAP-AROUND MOISTURE OVER
NERN WY AND NWRN SD...FOLLOWED BY SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WED. NEXT
LOW DEVELOPS OVER ERN CO-WRN KS WITH INVERTED TROF ALONG FRONT RANGE
AND UPSLOPE RETURN FLOW WED NIGHT-THURS MORNNING. GFS HAS TROF MUCH
SHARPER THAN ETA...FOR BETTER CONVERGENCE AND UPSLOPE POTENTIAL...SO
INCREASED POPS THRU THURS. TEMPS WILL COOL NEXT FEW DAYS...ESP WITH
CLOUD COVER.

.EXTENDED...UNSETTLED WX PATTERN LKS TO CONTINUE AT LEAST THRU THE
WEEKEND. NEXT UPPER LOW FCST TO MV THRU GT BASIN ON FRI AND LIFT
QUICKLY NE. THIS WL BRING ANOTHER CHC OF SHWS/TSTMS TO REGION ON FRI
AND SAT. YET ANOTHER UPPER LOW FCST TO MV IN QUICKLY BEHIND FRI/SAT
SYS AND THIS MAY PROD SIGNIFICANT PCPN ON SUN AND EARLY MON. LKS
LIKE A MORE ZONAL FLOW WILL BEGIN TO SET UP BY TUES AND THIS MAY
FINALLY DRY THINGS OUT.

&&

.AVIATION...SCT TSTMS...SOME OF WHICH WL BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL
AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...WILL AFFECT ALL TWEB RTES AND TAF
LOCATIONS THRU 04Z...OTHERWISE VFR CONDS CAN BE EXPECTED. AFT 04Z
VFR CONDS CAN BE EXPECED ACRS WRN NEB/ERN WY AND WRN SD. MVFR/IFR
CONDS ARE EXPECED ACRS WRN ND THRU THE FCST PERIOD.

&&

.UNR...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE
WY...SEVERE TSTM WATCH TIL 8 PM MDT

&&

SANDERS/LJC

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 10:15 AM MST, 7 hours 47 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1115 AM MDT TUE JUN 7 2005

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-081300-
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-
1115 AM MDT (1215 PM CDT) TUE JUN 7 2005

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND
SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...GENERALLY
EAST OF A LINE FROM FAITH...TO WALL...TO PINE RIDGE.

THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS ACROSS NORTHEASTERN
WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE
STORMS...WITH TORNADOES POSSIBLE IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM OVER UTAH WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN
PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP OVER
WESTERN NEBRASKA...BRINGING MOISTURE INTO THE AREA.

TAKE TIME TO REVIEW YOUR SEVERE WEATHER PLANS AND PREPARE FOR
HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS BEFORE STORMS DEVELOP. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATED INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY
DANGEROUS SITUATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THURSDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN
CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA.

SS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:00 PM MST, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:35 PM MST, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
635 PM MDT TUE JUN 07 2005

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

0620 PM     HAIL             6 S KADOKA              43.75N 101.51W
06/07/2005  2.50 INCH        JACKSON            SD   PUBLIC

&&

LCZEPYHA

Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:41 PM MST, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
641 PM MDT TUE JUN 07 2005

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

0625 PM     HAIL             11 N CREIGHTON          44.41N 102.21W
06/07/2005  0.75 INCH        PENNINGTON         SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

0625 PM     HAIL             9 NNW CREIGHTON         44.37N 102.30W
06/07/2005  1.50 INCH        PENNINGTON         SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HAIL LASTED FOR 15 MINUTES FROM 625 PM MDT THROUGH 640 PM
            MDT.

&&

LCZEPYHA

Local storm report, Jun 7, 6:00 PM MST, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
700 PM MDT TUE JUN 07 2005

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

0545 PM     HAIL             1 N ELM SPRINGS         44.32N 102.47W
06/07/2005  0.88 INCH        MEADE              SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

0604 PM     HAIL             5 W SCENIC              43.78N 102.65W
06/07/2005  0.75 INCH        PENNINGTON         SD   PUBLIC

0604 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 WSW SCENIC            43.76N 102.64W
06/07/2005  60 MPH           PENNINGTON         SD   PUBLIC

&&

LCZEPYHA

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:04 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Bennett

When: June 7, 6:02 PM MST
Where: Bennett County, Swett
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 43.167, -101.950

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in South Dakota in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in South Dakota, June 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5455332.