Hail, Campbell
- When
- July 7, 8:52 AM CST
- Where
- Campbell County, 10.8 mi WSW of Mound City
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 45.650, -100.270
A surface low pressure area in central South Dakota along with a warm front extending to the east brought severe thunderstorms to northeast South Dakota. Large hail up to the quarter size along with damaging winds to 60 mph occurred across parts of the area.
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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 ABR wrote it up.
A surface low pressure area in central South Dakota along with a warm front extending to the east brought severe thunderstorms to northeast South Dakota. Large hail up to the quarter size along with damaging winds to 60 mph occurred across parts of the area.
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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 7, 2:50 AM CST, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 331 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 2009 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-080845- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL- ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK- CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES- LYMAN-BUFFALO- 331 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 2009 /231 AM MDT TUE JUL 7 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A FRONT SITUATED ACROSS THE REGION...ALONG WITH BOUNDARIES FROM MORNING CONVECTION...WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE ENVIRONMENT THESE STORMS WILL FORM UNDER IS SUPPORTIVE FOR SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT WITH THE MAIN RISK BEING FOR HAIL AND HIGH WINDS...AND POSSIBLY AN ISOLATED TORNADO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WITH MODELS INDICATING A FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX EFFECTING THE NORTHERN TIER OF THE STATE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS COMPLEX IS FOR HIGH WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. CONNELLY
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 932 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 2009 SDZ003>005-009-015-071600- CAMPBELL-CORSON-DEWEY-MCPHERSON-WALWORTH- 932 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 2009 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CAMPBELL... EASTERN CORSON...NORTHEASTERN DEWEY...NORTHWESTERN MCPHERSON AND NORTHWESTERN WALWORTH COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 AM CDT/1000 AM MDT/... AT 828 AM MDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR INDIAN MEMORIAL REC AREA...OR NEAR MOBRIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A FEW LOCATIONS IN THE ADVISORY INCLUDE GLENHAM...KENEL...POLLOCK... MOUND CITY...HERREID...ARTAS...EUREKA...GREENWAY AND LONG LAKE. A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO NOTED ON RADAR DEVELOPING NEAR ARTAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING ACCOMPANIES THESE STORMS. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. && DORN
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:49 UTC.
9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Seventy mph winds uprooted several trees along with damaging some shingles.
Several trees were uprooted by seventy mph winds.
A funnel cloud was observed extending from a wall cloud.
Sixty mph winds downed several branches in and around Henry.
Sixty mph winds were estimated by a trained spotter.
Winds were estimated by the public to be around 60 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, July 2009
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: 189852, 189853, 189935, 189936, 189952, 189855, 189857, 189858, 189868, 189861, 189864, 189872, 189860, 189930, 189863.