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Aberdeen, SD hail history

Every figure below is from the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database — the official NWS record — counting events recorded within 10 miles of the Aberdeen city centroid, 1950 to present.

135hail events since 1950
96≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
2.75"largest on record · 1988-07-12
2025-07-15most recent hail event

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Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 2 0.75" (penny)
2024 2 1.00" (quarter)
2023 0
2022 0
2021 3 1.75" (golf ball)
2020 1 1.00" (quarter)
2019 1 1.25" (half dollar)
2018 0
2017 6 1.75" (golf ball)
2016 1 1.00" (quarter)
2015 10 2.75" (baseball)
2014 6 1.75" (golf ball)
2013 6 1.75" (golf ball)
2012 4 1.00" (quarter)

Note: the current and prior year reflect the latest NCEI compile and grow as NWS finalizes reports; same-day activity appears on this site's storm-day pages before it reaches this table.

Wind and tornado record

Most recent recorded events

DateTypeMagnitudeDistance
2025-08-17 Thunderstorm Wind 63 mph 2.5 mi
2025-08-17 Thunderstorm Wind 63 mph 2.5 mi
2025-08-08 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 2.5 mi
2025-08-05 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 1.9 mi
2025-08-05 Thunderstorm Wind 70 mph 1.4 mi
2025-07-21 Thunderstorm Wind 62 mph 1.4 mi
2025-07-15 Hail 0.75" 2.3 mi
2025-07-15 Hail 0.75" 0.7 mi
2025-07-13 Tornado EF0 6.1 mi
2025-07-09 Thunderstorm Wind 69 mph 0.5 mi

2025-08-08: “The Aberdeen Regional Airport Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) recorded a peak gust of 60 mph.”

2025-08-05: “A caller stated that multiple large tree branches had come down at Lee Park golf course.”

2025-07-21: “A 62 mph gust was recorded by a South Dakota Department of Transportation mesonet station two miles east-northeast of Aberdeen.”

Storm-day records for Aberdeen — “did it hail on this date?”

Each recorded hail day in Aberdeen has its own page with the official NWS reports for that date.

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Address lookup by the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder. Records: NOAA NCEI Storm Events (final) plus SPC preliminary reports for storms newer than the latest compile — see methodology.

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Nearby hail history

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NWS records are point and path observations. The absence of a nearby report does NOT prove that no hail fell at this address — it means no observation was logged nearby. A report of nearby hail documents the event; it does not by itself prove damage to a specific structure.

source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events computed 2026-08-09