Thunderstorm Wind, Plymouth
- When
- July 7, 7:58 AM CST
- Where
- Plymouth County, 5 mi SW of Hinton
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.583, -96.367
Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 7, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 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 Jul 7, 2:20 AM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:20 AM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 320 AM CDT SAT JUL 7 2001 GOOD E/W BOUNDARY ALG MISSOURI VALLEY EARLY THIS MRNG...AND MAY ACT AS FOCAL POINT FOR EWD MOVG TSTMS NR NEB/SD BORDER...SO WILL HIT POPS FAIRLY HARD DOWN THERE THIS MRNG. LEFTOVER ACTIVITY PSBL FURTHER N AND E BORDERING THIS AREA IN MARGINAL DYNAMIC AREA AND WILL HAVE TO COVER WITH 20 PCTS. MODELS NOT REALLY THAT HELPFUL WITH WEAK FORCING CONVECTION...BUT ETA RELATIVELY CLOSEST TO REALITY. OTRW PREV FCST IN THE BALLPARK...AND WL KEEP 20 TO 30 PCT IN SRN HLF CWA TNGT NR BOUNDARY...AND SHADE UP HIGHS SOME DUE TO GOOD MIXING. .FSD...NONE RYR0HOLM
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Heat in Missouri, July 7 to 10, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 7 to 9, 2001
- Heat in Texas, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 7, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Indiana, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Heat in Kentucky, July 7 to 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 7, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, July 7 to 9, 2001
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, July 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: 5261083.