Name: Hail in South Dakota, April 27, 2014
Start: 2014-04-27T00:30
End: 2014-04-27T01:30
Location: South Dakota

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 ABR wrote it up.

Nickel to quarter size hail had fallen from a thunderstorm moving across Hyde and Hand counties during the early morning hours.

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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 26, 2:30 PM CST, 10 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 2:30 PM CST, 10 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 3:50 AM CST, 20 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
450 AM CDT SAT APR 26 2014

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-271000-
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-
450 AM CDT SAT APR 26 2014 /350 AM MDT SAT APR 26 2014/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA...CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A POTENT LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY AND
TONIGHT. THE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL REACH THE VERY HIGH
CATEGORY...MAINLY DUE TO STRONG EASTERLY WINDS.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TONIGHT...AND A FEW
STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT WOULD BE
LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THE STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE REGION
THROUGH MIDWEEK. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON
SUNDAY...ALTHOUGH THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS. AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE...ALTHOUGH THE
THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT.

FOWLE

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 154 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:29 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hyde

When: April 27, 12:30 AM CST
Where: Hyde County, 3.96 mi E of Stephan
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 44.250, -99.370

Hail, Hand

When: April 27, 1:30 AM CST
Where: Hand County, 0.49 mi W of Miller
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Emergency Manager
Coordinates: 44.520, -98.990

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

More

Every storm in South Dakota in 2014 Every state in 2014 This day in weather history Warnings in South Dakota, April 2014

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: 513700, 513704.