Hail, Lawrence
- When
- July 28, 1:15 PM MST
- Where
- Lawrence County, 6.33 mi WNW of Nemo
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 44.240, -103.615
Hail in South Dakota, July 28, 2011
Quarter sized hail fell near Nemo.
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 happened
The episode as NWS UNR wrote it up.
Quarter sized hail fell near Nemo.
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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 27, 1:25 PM MST, 23 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 1:25 PM MST, 23 hours 50 minutes before
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The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:14 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
- Wildfire in Texas, July 28, 2011
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 28 to 29, 2011
- Flash Flood in Illinois, July 28 to 29, 2011
- Wildfire in Arkansas, July 28 to 31, 2011
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 28, 2011
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Kansas, July 28, 2011
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Michigan, July 28, 2011
- Flash Flooding in New Mexico, July 28, 2011
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 28, 2011
- Heat in West Virginia, July 28 to 29, 2011
- Flash Flooding in Arizona, July 28, 2011
- Flash Flood and Flood in Minnesota, July 28, 2011
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, July 2011
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 331004.