Thunderstorm Wind, Dawes
- When
- July 9, 8:14 PM MST
- Where
- Dawes County, (Cdr)chadron Arpt
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 42.833, -103.100
Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 9, 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 9, 1:23 PM MST, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 1:23 PM MST, 6 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 223 PM MDT MON JUL 9 2001 ANOTHER AFTERNOON OF WAITING FOR SECOND SHOE TO DROP FROM SPC. STORMS FIRING ALONG CO FRONT RANGE AND SOUTHEAST WY MOUNTAINS...BUT NOT AS STRONG AS THIS TIME YESTERDAY. STORMS DISORGANIZED AND MULTI-CELLULAR. 18 UTC/NOON MESO-ETA HAS SHORT WAVE ALONG PLATTE RIVER IN SOUTHEAST WY AND WESTERN PANHANDLE GRADUALLY PIVOTING ANTI-CYCLONICALLY. MEAN RIDGE FROM SOUTHWEST CORNER KS THROUGH EASTERN PLAINS WY THROUGH CENTRAL MT. EARLIER MESO-ETA HAD DISTINCT 700 MB THETA-E AXIS ALONG CAG-DEN-GLD...WHICH WOULD SERVE AS FOCUS FOR SLOW MOVING OR BACK BUILDING THUNDERSTORMS. RUC40 AT 19 UTC/1 PM HAS AXIS ALONG CAG-S OF DEN-LIC-IML LINE. ALSO SECONDARY AXIS FROM NORTH-CENTRAL WY TO NORTHERN NEB PANHANDLE. WATER VAPOR LOOPS CONTINUES TO SHOW JET BRANCH PIVOTING AROUND UPPER HIGH AND NORTHWARD THROUGH EASTERN CO. PRESENCE OF THIS WILL HELP FOCUS T-STORMS ALONG LOWER THETA-E RIDGE...BUT HOPEFULLY SOUTH OF WY/CO BORDER. WITH LOWER AND MORE FAVORABLE WET BULB ZERO HEIGHT TODAY BELIEVE WILL SEE MORE HAIL REPORTS REST OF TODAY...POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. STORMS WILL NOT BE STRONGLY SHEARED HOWEVER AS HELICITIES NEXT TO ZERO. MESO-ETA STILL HAS STRONG VORTICITY CENTERS MOVING OUT OF CO AND ACROSS CWA 24-54 HRS/6 AM TUE-NOON WED...SO MORE OF SAME. SPLITTING UPPER TROUGH WILL BE MOVING INTO FAR WEST WY WED WITH SURFACE COOL FRONT IMMEDIATELY AHEAD OF IT. LONG WAVE RIDGE WILL THEN EXTEND NORTHWARD FROM SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS UPPER HIGH. WILL GO WITH LOWER MORE SEASONAL POPS FOR WED AFTERNOON. SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS ON GUIDANCE FOR WED QUESTIONABLE. .EXTENDED DISCUSSION... SAME STORY CONTINUES THROUGH EXTENDED PERIOD. RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE INTERIOR WEST WILL HOLD STRONG...WITH SHORT- WAVES ROTATING AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE HIGH...WHICH WILL BE CENTERED ANY WHERE FROM NORTHERN TX...TO THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. VARYING AMOUNTS OF MONSOONAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM INTO THE AREA FROM DAY TO DAY. STILL NO MAJOR FRONTS EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH THE AREA. DAY TO DAY TEMPS WILL REMAIN ABOUT THE SAME WITH A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. .CYS... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. COX
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 145 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:16 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
- Wildfire in Washington, July 9 to 23, 2001
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 9 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Virginia, July 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, July 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 9, 2001
- Flash Flood in Maine, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 9, 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: 5258053.