South Dakota, 2001

Tornado in South Dakota, July 22, 2001

July 22, 2001 · NWS UNR · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 22, 2:00 PM MST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:00 PM MST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
300 PM MDT SUN JUL 22 2001

S/WV TROF MOVG THRU ERN MT HAS TRIGGERED TSTMS OVR ERN MT THIS
AFTN.  MDLS WEAKEN SRN VORT BY 00Z...BUT IT CURRENTLY SHOWS NO SIGNS
OF WEAKENING. MST OF ENERGY W/ THE TROF WL ROTATE THRU MT AND
ND...BUT WL ALSO CLIP NERN WY AND NWRN SD.  ASSOC CD FNT WL PUSH
THRU SD OVRNITE...BUT AMS WL BCM MOR STABLE AFTER SUNSET.  TMW LOOKS
COOLER W/ LOWER TSTM POPS...BUT ANTHR S/WV IS PROGGED TO MOV OVR THE
AREA MON NITE.  ELY UPSLOP SFC WNDS WL INCRS THE CHC OF PRECIP FOR
THE BLK HLS AND FOOTHILLS...W/ SMLR POPS OVR THE REST OF THE AREA.
THEN WNDS BECOM SELY AGAIN BY TUES FOR MOR AFTN/EVE TSTMS.  THE
EXTENDED PTN IS MOR ZONAL/NRN FLOW AND CUTS OFF THE SWRN MSTR
FEED...BUT S/WVS WL HELP TRIGGER TSTMS.

.UNR...NONE.
SANDERS

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:47 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Meade

When
July 22, 7:45 PM MST
Where
Meade County, 15 mi SW of Faith
Rating
F0
Path length
0.5 mi
Path width
10 yd
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
44.883, -102.250

A trained spotter reported a rapidly formed funnel cloud that briefly touched down, then dissipated.

What these are

Tornado
A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5260293.