Hail, Custer
- When
- June 16, 5:40 PM MST to 5:45 PM MST
- Where
- Custer County, 11.33 mi E of Fairburn
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 43.660, -102.987
Hail in South Dakota, June 16, 2015
A thunderstorm produced hail around penny size in eastern Custer County.
Where it happened
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- 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.
A thunderstorm produced hail around penny size in eastern Custer County.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:04 PM MST, 36 minutes before
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The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:41 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
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Texas, June 16 to 18, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Missouri, June 16 to 19, 2015
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 16, 2015
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 16, 2015
- Tropical Storm and Storm Surge in Texas, June 16, 2015
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Ohio, June 16 to 18, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Texas, June 16 to 18, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Nebraska, June 16 to 17, 2015
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 16 to 18, 2015
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, June 16, 2015
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 16 to 17, 2015
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 16 to 17, 2015
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, June 2015
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 576344.