Hail, Gregory
- When
- September 18, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Gregory County, 4 mi E of Fairfax
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.033, -98.817
Hail in South Dakota, September 18, 2005
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
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 Sep 18, 3:15 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 3:15 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 415 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005 ACTIVE WX TONIGHT AS S/W MOVES NEWD ACRS NRN PLAINS. BEST SVR WX TRHEAT ACRS SERN HALF OF CWA. WATCHES ALREADY IN EFFECT. MOST ACTIVE PD SHUD BE FM 00Z TO 05Z FOR SVR WX WITH THREAT DECREASING AFTER THAT. BULK OF PRECIP SHUD BE OVR BY 12Z BUT WL LINGER RW OVR SW MN THRU MID MORN. COOLER AIR WITH TEMP COVR CWA ON MON...BUT WARMUP TUES AND WED AHEAD OF NEXT S/W. WL KEEP TRW IN FCST WED AFTN AND NIGHT WITH THIS FEATURE. ACTIVE PATTERN WITH WLYS ACRS NRN PLAINS SO YET ANTOEHR THREAT OF PRECIP SAT. && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 18, 2:05 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 305 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-191200- 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- 305 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INCREASE RAPIDLY THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...WITH ISOLATED STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90. THE STORMS WILL THEN MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA IN THE EVENING. NORTH OF INTERSTATE 90...THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE STORMS WILL BE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90...DAMAGING WINDS TO 65 MPH AND UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD END AROUND MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY NIGHT EAST OF INTERSTATE 29. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WEST OF A LINE FROM DE SMET TO TYNDALL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STORMS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND INTO SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA WEDNESDAY EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY AFTER 500 PM. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. WILLIAMS
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 180 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:49 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, September 18 to 19, 2005
- Hail in Iowa, September 18 to 19, 2005
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, September 18, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, September 18, 2005
- Hail in Kansas, September 18, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, September 18, 2005
- Hail in Iowa, September 18, 2005
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, September 18, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, September 18, 2005
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, September 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: 5474562.