1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
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...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
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
804 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0750 PM HAIL 4 E FAIRFAX 43.03N 98.81W
09/18/2005 1.75 INCH GREGORY SD PUBLIC
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CJPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
812 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0740 PM HAIL 2 SE PLATTE 43.37N 98.82W
09/18/2005 0.75 INCH CHARLES MIX SD PUBLIC
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CJPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
833 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0833 PM HAIL 11 WSW WESSINGTON SPRIN 44.02N 98.78W
09/18/2005 1.75 INCH JERAULD SD TRAINED SPOTTER
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CJThe Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 165 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:33 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Large hail broke windows in houses and vehicles, dented vehicles, damaged siding, and damaged crops for several miles. The amount of crop damage was not known.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, September 2005
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: 5474563.