Thunderstorm Wind, Brookings
- When
- July 21, 7:50 AM CST
- Where
- Brookings County, 8 mi NE of White
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.517, -96.533
Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 21, 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 Jul 21, 2:55 AM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:55 AM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 355 AM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001 FUN MRNG WITH ALL THE ACTVTY ARND HERE. HWVR IT SHUD MOVE ON OUT LATE THIS MRNG AND LEAVE NOTHNG. WILL GO PTCLDY AFTER MRNG TSTMS ERN PART OF AREA. LESS HUMID AIR FILTERNG IN. NEXT SYS COMNG IN LATE TNGT AND FOR TUE AS COOLER AIR CONTS TO SEEP IN AT LOW LVLS. MODELS NOT SURPRISINGLY FIND IT HARD TO PIN DOWN TIMING OF CONVECTN AND WILL KEEP PRETTY MUCH THE CHC FCST WE HAVE HAD GOING...EXTNDG CHC SHWRS INTO TUE NGT. EXTNDED THE MORE OR LESS ALSO AS WAS WITH CHC TSTMS MOST AREAS THU THRU SUN. SPLIT BETWN FWC AND FAN TEMPS AGN LOOKS LIKE BEST IDEA...LEANG TO FWC FOR TDAS HIGHS. .FSD...NONE WILLIAMS
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:49 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 Illinois, July 21 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 21 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Wisconsin, July 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Michigan, July 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Illinois, July 21, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 21, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, July 21 to 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 21, 2001
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5261166.