Hail in South Dakota, May 26, 2005

Name: Hail in South Dakota, May 26, 2005
Start: 2005-05-26T16:30
End: 2005-05-26T16:30
Location: South Dakota

May 26, 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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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 May 26, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
245 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2005

.DISCUSSION...
UPPER LOW OVR WRN GREAT LAKES REGION WL CONT TO KEEP TEMPS BLO NORM
BY 10 DEG OR SO THRU THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. SCT RW-TRW ATTM WL
DISSIPATE AROUND SS AND AGAIN REDEVELOP FRI AFTN MAINLY ACRS THE ERN
CWA. SHUD AGAIN MIX OUT ON FRI TO PRODUCE 15 TO 25 MPH WNDS. TEMPS
ON FRI WL BE COOLER THAN TODAY AS SURGE OF COOLER AIR MOVES IN
OVERNIGHT.

ON SAT...WEAK WAA EXPECTED AHEAD OF NEXT S/W ROTATING ARND UPPER
LOW. SO TEMPS WL BE WARMER THAN FRI BY 5 DEGREES OR SO. WL BRING A
CHC OF LATE AFTN RW- TO NRN CWA REACHING I90 BY EVEN BEFORE
DISSIPATING AFT SS. ANOTHER SURGE OF COOLER AIR BEHIND THAT S/W WL
KEEP CWA MOCDLY AND TEMPS ARND 10 DEG BLO NORM FOR HIGHS. YET
ANOTHER S/W WL SWING SWD ACRS CWA SUN NITE AND MON AND WL KEEP SMALL
CHC OF RW- IN FCST WITH COOL TEMPS EXPECTED MEOMORIAL DAY.

EFFECTS OF UPPER LOW WL FIND EXIT CWA TUE INTO THU WITH TEMPS
CLIMBING TO NR OR ABOVE NORMAL TUES INTO THU. WITH NWLY FLOW ALOFT
EXPECTED AIRMASS WL REMAIN DRY AS GULF REMAINS CUTOFF FM NRN PLAINS.

&&

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

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 9:28 AM CST, 7 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1028 AM CDT THU MAY 26 2005

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-271200-
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-
1028 AM CDT THU MAY 26 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM THIS AFTERNOON DUE
TO VERY COLD AIR ALOFT AND A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVING DOWN FROM THE
NORTH. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL UP TO PENNY
SIZE...BUT MOST HAIL SHOULD BE PEA SIZE. IN ADDITION...IF SOME
RAINFALL EVAPORATES BEFORE REACHING THE GROUND...THERE COULD BE
SOME LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH WITH A COUPLE OF THE
STORMS THIS AFTERNOON...BUT MOST WIND GUSTS SHOULD BE LESS THAN
40 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE POSSIBLE AFTER 2 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, May 26, 4:28 PM CST, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
528 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2005

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

0456 PM     HAIL             IRENE                   43.08N 97.16W
05/26/2005  0.75 INCH        CLAY               SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

            60 MPH WIND GUST TREE LIMBS DOWN

&&

JS

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Union

When: May 26, 4:30 PM CST
Where: Union County, Alcester
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 43.017, -96.650

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, May 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: 5453440.