Hail on Date

Hail in Rapid City on Tuesday, June 7, 2022

The Storm Prediction Center logged 6 hail reports in Rapid City on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, between 12:30 pm and 2:05 pm MDT, in 2 of the metro's 2 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 1 NNW Sheridan Lake (Pennington County) at 2:00 pm. NOAA radar flagged 159 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 19 rated a 100% chance of hail and 25 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

6spotter hail reports in the metro
1.75 inlargest reported, 1 NNW Sheridan Lake
159radar hail signatures inside the metro, 19 rated 100%
1.75 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Rapid City counties with 159 radar hail signatures and 6 spotter hail reports on June 7, 2022 Pennington Meade 1.75 in, 1 NNW Sheridan Lake
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

Where hail was reported

Reports came from 4 places in Meade and Pennington counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.

Every hail report logged that day

Times are Mountain Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
12:30 pm1.001 NNW PiedmontMeadeLARGEST WAS QUARTER SIZED... MOSTLY SMALLER HAIL COVERING THE GROUND (UNR)
12:33 pm1.251 NNW PiedmontMeadeHAIL SIZE INCREASED IN LAST FEW MINUTES (UNR)
1:05 pm1.006 ENE SturgisMeadeHAIL COVERING THE GROUND (UNR)
2:00 pm1.751 NNW Sheridan LakePenningtonLARGE HAIL LASTED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES... STILL SOME SMALL HAIL ABOUT TEN MINUTES AFTER HAIL STARTED (UNR)
2:01 pm1.001 W Dwtn Rapid CityPennington(UNR)
2:05 pm1.001 W Dwtn Rapid CityPennington(UNR)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

159 signatures from 1 radar fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 19 were rated 100% and 0 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KUDX159192501.75 in11:45 am3:43 pm

Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.

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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Mountain Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Rapid City when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 2 counties (Pennington and Meade counties). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.