Thunderstorm Wind, Dixon
- When
- July 16, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dixon County, 2 mi NE of Concord
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.400, -96.950
Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 16, 2001
2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 16, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 825 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001 HAVE CUT BACK POPS ALONG AND N OF I90 AS COMPLEX OVR NERN NEB STABILIZING AIRMASS OVR THIS AREA ATTM. COMPLEX OVR NERN NEB MOVG ESE AND MAY CLIP SUX. SO HAVE UPPED POPS THERE. WATCH NOT VERIFYING OVR SD PORTION AND WL COOD WITH SPC BEFORE CLEARING WATCH AT LEAST N OF I90. .FSD...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 7:48 PM CST, 42 minutes before
SDZ038>040-050-052>071-170215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 848 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 560 CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA THE REST OF THE EVENING. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EASTCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Dixon
- When
- July 16, 8:40 PM CST
- Where
- Dixon County, 5 mi S of Martinsburg
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.433, -96.833
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large branches down.
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 Oklahoma, July 16 to 26, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, July 16, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, July 16, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 16, 2001
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, July 16, 2001
- Tornado in Nebraska, July 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 16, 2001
- Flash Flood in Arizona, July 16 to 17, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, July 16 to 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, 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: 5261155, 5261156.