Thunderstorm Wind, Brown
- When
- August 8, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County, Frederick
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.833, -98.517
Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 8, 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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 8:35 PM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 8:35 PM CST, 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 935 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2001 DISCUSSION A LITTLE LATE THIS EVENING AFTER COORDINATION CALL WITH SPC. AFTER DISCUSSION WITH SPC...A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL BE POSTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA AND WILL EXTEND SOUTHWARD TO THE SD/ND BORDER. WILL LEAVE OUT TRAVERSE COUNTY AS WATCH AREA ONLY CLIPS THE EXTREME NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. OTHERWISE...RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA PUSHING TO THE EAST. TWEAKED PRECIPITATION WORDING IN MOST ZONE GROUPS. DID ADJUST TEMPERATURES DOWNWARD IN THE MOBRIDGE GROUP...AND ADJUSTED WINDS UPWARD A NOTCH BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. UPDATED ZONES ALREADY OUT. .ABR...NONE. ECKBERG
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:31 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
- Heat in New York, August 8 to 10, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, August 8, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, August 8, 2001
- Heat in North Carolina, August 8, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 8, 2001
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, August 8, 2001
- Heat in New York, August 8 to 9, 2001
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, 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: 5266992.