Hail, Perkins
- When
- June 18, 11:17 AM MST to 11:37 AM MST
- Where
- Perkins County, 15 mi E of Zeona
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 45.200, -102.622
Severe thunderstorms developed across southern Perkins County and moved slowly southward across northern Meade County.
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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.
Severe thunderstorms developed across southern Perkins County and moved slowly southward across northern Meade County.
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 18, 9:30 AM MST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1100 AM MDT WED JUN 18 2008 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-191300- 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- 1100 AM MDT (1200 PM CDT) WED JUN 18 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 WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA....ALONG WITH OVER NORTHEASTERN WYOMING...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CROSSES THE NORTHERN PLAINS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AS THE MAIN THREAT...THOUGH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY THAT SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO. THE AREA WITH THE GREATEST THREAT FOR THIS WILL BE OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA CLOSE TO THE NEBRASKA BORDER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS THE AREA ON THURSDAY... WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...PARTICULARLY SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BUFFALO TO MARTIN. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. THE THREAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY...WITH A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER OVER WESTERN AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...ALONG WITH OVER NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY...PARTICULARLY OVER SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90.
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:14 UTC.
5 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: 95132, 95135, 95136, 95138, 95144.