South Dakota, 2014

Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 22 to 23, 2014

July 22 to 23, 2014 · NWS UNR · 6 events in 4 counties and zones

A severe thunderstorm tracked from Wyoming across southwestern South Dakota during the nighttime hours, producing hail around quarter size and strong winds.

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

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
6

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.

A severe thunderstorm tracked from Wyoming across southwestern South Dakota during the nighttime hours, producing hail around quarter size and strong winds.

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 22, 10:53 PM MST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 10:53 PM MST, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1153 PM MDT TUE JUL 22 2014

.SHORT TERM...THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT
ISSUED AT 154 PM MDT TUE JUL 22 2014

LATEST SFC ANALYSIS SHOW HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE CENTRAL
DAKOTAS/NEBRASKA WITH SOUTHERLY RETURN FLOW ALONG THE WESTERN
EDGE OF THE SFC HIGH OVER NERN WY AND FAR WRN SD. VIS SAT IMAGE
SHOWS CU DEVELOPING ALONG THE CONVERGENCE ZONE OVER THE HIGHER
ELEVATIONS OF THE BLACK HILLS AND ANOTHER N-S ORIENTED LINE OF
DEVELOPING CU OVER CAMPBELL COUNTY WY. NAM IS SHOWING A BAND OF
1500-2000J/KG SB CAPE EXTENDING FROM SC MT THROUGH NERN WY AND THE
BLKHLS AND INTO SWRN AND SC SD. IT LOOKS LIKE THE CAPPING
INVERSION WILL SOON ERODE OVER PARTS OF NERN WY...NWRN SD AND THE
BLKHLS SO EXPECT CONVECTION TO DEVELOP OVER THOSE AREAS AFT 21Z.
0-6KM SHEAR WILL INCREASE DURING THE LATE AFTN AS 40KT MID-LEVEL
NORTHWESTERLY WINDS COMBINE WITH 10KT EAST/SOUTHEAST BOUNDARY
LAYER FLOW. MESO MODELS INDICATE A FEW SUPERCELLS WILL DEVELOP
ALONG THE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AREAS BY LATE AFTERNOON...TRACKING
SOUTHEASTWARD DURING THE EVENING. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN
THREAT...BUT AS STORMS COLLAPSE DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE.

OVERNIGHT...UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD OVER CWA WITH
DRY WEATHER EXPECTED AFT MIDNIGHT. LOWS NEAR GUIDANCE.

WEDNESDAY...UPPER/THERMAL RIDGE WILL BE LOCATED OVER THE NORTHERN
PLAINS WITH A LEE SIDE SFC TROUGH AND AN UPPER SHORTWAVE APPROACHING
DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK HEATING IN THE AFTERNOON. LOW LEVEL
SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW WILL INCREASE THE 0-6KM BULK SHEAR. ISOLATED
SEVERE TSRA ARE EXPECTED. PERSISTENT MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WILL BE
LOCATED ALONG EASTERN SLOPES OF BLACK HILLS AND SUPERCELL FORECAST
MOVEMENT OVER THAT AREA WILL BE LESS THAN 10KTS BY 00Z. MODELS
INDICATE PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES WILL BE 150 PERCENT OF NORMAL.
LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN/FLASH FLOODING MAY BE POSSIBLE. TEMPERATURES
WILL WARM UP ON WEDNESDAY...AND COULD BE QUITE WARM WEDNESDAY NIGHT
GIVEN 30-40KT LOW LEVEL JET.

&&

.LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
ISSUED AT 154 PM MDT TUE JUL 22 2014

UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE WILL REMAIN OVER THE ROCKIES AND HIGH PLAINS
DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK...WITH VERY WARM CONDITIONS
PERSISTING. WEAK SHORTWAVE ENERGY WILL CONTINUE TO ROTATE AROUND THE
RIDGE AND BRING ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO THURSDAY NIGHT. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE
STORMS LOOK POSSIBLE AGAIN. A STRONG SHORTWAVE TROF WILL THEN SLIDE
SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA...WITH WEAKER ENERGY CROSSING
THE NORTHERN PLAINS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. THIS WILL BRING
ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS TO THE AREA.

AS THE SHORTWAVE TROF SLIDES EAST...THE UPPER RIDGE WILL RETROGRADE
WEST...BRINGING PREDOMINANTLY NORTHWEST UPPER FLOW TO THE NORTHERN
PLAINS. THIS WILL RESULT IN COOLER TEMPERATURES FOR THE REST OF THE
EXTENDED PERIOD...ALONG WITH MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS.

&&

.AVIATION...(FOR THE 06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z WEDNESDAY NIGHT)
ISSUED AT 1150 PM MDT TUE JUL 22 2014

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FROM THE BLACK
HILLS THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...INCLUDING KRAP...THROUGH
12Z. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG
WIND GUSTS. VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ELSEWHERE THROUGH THE
REST OF THE NIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE OVER NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA ON
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

&&

.UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
WY...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...10
LONG TERM...26
AVIATION...15
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 3:32 AM MST, 19 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
432 AM MDT TUE JUL 22 2014

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-231400-
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-
432 AM MDT (532 AM CDT) TUE JUL 22 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST WYOMING AND FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN
THREAT...BUT DAMAGING WINDS CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
AND NIGHT AND THEN AGAIN THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. ISOLATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
OVER NORTHEAST WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THERE IS A SLIGHT
RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER
NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE
MAIN THREAT.

IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS IS
POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE BLACK HILLS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...
OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/RAPIDCITY

In the hours before

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Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:11 PM MST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
911 PM MDT TUE JUL 22 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0855 PM     HAIL             1 NW PIEDMONT           44.24N 103.41W
07/22/2014  M0.75 INCH       MEADE              SD   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

CALDERON
Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:18 PM MST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
918 PM MDT TUE JUL 22 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0840 PM     HAIL             5 NNE ANGOSTURA RESERVO 43.38N 103.40W
07/22/2014  E2.00 INCH       FALL RIVER         SD   PUBLIC

&&

DBARBER
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The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:51 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pennington

When
July 22, 10:53 PM MST
Where
Pennington County, 7.53 mi WSW of Hill City
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
Trained Spotter
Coordinates
43.899, -103.725

Thunderstorm Wind, Pennington

When
July 23, 12:15 AM MST to 12:25 AM MST
Where
Pennington County, 2.49 mi W of Hayward
Measured
52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
Trained Spotter
Coordinates
43.870, -103.380

Strong winds and hail damaged a garden.

Hail, Custer

When
July 23, 12:55 AM MST to 1:10 AM MST
Where
Custer County, 2.46 mi NW of Buffalo Gap
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
Trained Spotter
Coordinates
43.517, -103.342

Hail to quarter size covered the ground.

Hail, Fall River

When
July 23, 1:25 AM MST to 1:35 AM MST
Where
Fall River County, 6.6 mi NE of Smithwick
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
43.374, -103.137

Thunderstorm Wind, Oglala Lakota

When
July 23, 1:33 AM MST
Where
Oglala Lakota County, 5.04 mi NE of Porcupine
Measured
50 kt (58 mph) measured gust
Reported by
RAWS
Coordinates
43.289, -102.271

Thunderstorm Wind, Oglala Lakota

When
July 23, 1:50 AM MST
Where
Oglala Lakota County, Oglala
Measured
52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
43.180, -102.750

Wind gusts were estimated around 60 mph.

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind
Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in South Dakota in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, July 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: 528874, 528875, 528880, 528881, 528882, 528885.