Thunderstorm Wind, Woodbury
- When
- August 2, 6:37 AM CST
- Where
- Woodbury County, (Sux)sioux City Arpt
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 42.400, -96.383
Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 2, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
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 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 2:30 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:30 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 330 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2001 SHWRS/TSTMS AFFECTING FAR SERN CWA NEAR STORM LAKE ATTM...AND ALSO APPROACHING SWRN CWA FM NEB. OBVIOUSLY THE CHANCES OF SHWRS/TSTMS WILL HAVE TO BE COVERED FOR IN SRN CWA FOR MOST OF TDA INTO TNGT AS TROPICAL RIDGE RIDERS INTERACT WITH LINGERING LOW LVL BOUNDARY. THERE IS EVEN A CHANCE OF DVLPMT FURTHER N IN CWA AS TROPICAL MOISTURE INTERACTS WITH NRN STREAM AND WITH RETURN SELY FLW THRU 850MB BY LATE AFTN INTO TNGT. ONLY PLACE THAT COULD BE PROTECTED IS SWRN MN AND ADJ NWRN IA THRU TNGT AS LOW LVL RDG HOLDS...BUT THESE AREAS PROBABLY ALSO HAVE THE BEST CHCS FOR NGTTIME AND EARLY MRNG FOG. HIGH TEMPS TDA AND MAYBE FRI MAY BE TEMPERED BY CLDS AND HUMIDITY ESP IN SRN CWA. BEST CHC MIXING TO LWR TO MID 90S WL BE NWRN CWA NR HON...MHE...AND CHB FRI...OTRW MID TO UPR 80S MAY BE THE BRULE. .FSD...NONE RYRHOLM
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:35 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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
- Flash Flood in Illinois, August 2, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 2, 2001
- Flash Flood in Florida, August 2, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 2, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 2, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 2, 2001
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, August 2001
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: 5264356.