Hail, Mellette
- When
- June 17, 7:20 AM CST
- Where
- Mellette County, 8 mi SE of White River
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 43.488, -100.637
A thunderstorm produced hail to quarter size as it moved across south central South Dakota during the early morning hours.
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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 episode as NWS UNR wrote it up.
A thunderstorm produced hail to quarter size as it moved across south central South Dakota during the early morning hours.
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 16, 3:00 PM CST, 16 hours 20 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1041 AM MDT MON JUN 16 2008 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-171300- 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- 1041 AM MDT (1141 AM CDT) MON JUN 16 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CROSSES THE NORTHERN PLAINS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE OVER NORTHEAST WYOMING AND FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...PARTICULARLY WEST OF A LINE FROM SPEARFISH TO HOT SPRINGS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS...THOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY OVER NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS THE AREA ON TUESDAY... WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE... PARTICULARLY SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MARTIN TO RAPID CITY TO NEWCASTLE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. THE THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES INTO WEDNESDAY...WITH A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...ALONG WITH PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WYOMING EAST OF A LINE FROM WESTON TO CLARETON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED OVER NORTHEASTERN WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING.
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 170 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:21 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, June 2008
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: 95094, 95095.