Thunderstorm Wind, Harding
- When
- June 18, 3:15 AM MST
- Where
- Harding County, Ludlow
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.833, -103.383
Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 18, 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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 18, 1:30 AM MST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:30 AM MST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 230 AM MDT MON JUN 18 2001 MDLS SLOWING UP TIMING OF COLD FNT MVG THRU CWA THIS MRNG AND EARLY AFTN. HAVE SOME TSMS OVR SD PNS MVG E AND MORE THAT WL BE ENTERING IN FM ERN MT IN NEXT FEW HRS AHEAD OF COLD FNT AND STRONG S/W. SVR THREAT WL EXIST ALONG FNT. TEMPS WL BE TRICKY TDY AS READINGS THIS MRNG HAVE NOT DROPPED BELOW 60 ANYWHERE OVR SD PLNS YET. AREAS IN THE NW WL LIKELY NOT WARM MUCH AS COLD AIR WL BE FILTERING IN QUICKLY AFTER 12Z. CURRENT SAT PIX SHOW AREAS IN THE S WL HAVE SOME SUN THIS MRNG BEFORE THE FNT MOVES THRU AND SHLD ALLOW WARMING INTO THE 70S WITH FALLING TEMPS AFT 18Z. WIND WL ALSO BE A PROB BEHIND FNT AS H85 WINDS PROGGED TO BE 25-35KTS. WL GO JUST BELOW ADV CRITERIA ALTHOUGH DAY SHIFT MAY NEED TO UPGRADE LATER. TNGT SOME MOISTURE LINGERS AND MOST OF CWA WL BE UNDER INFLUENCE OF RR QUAD OF H30 JET...SO MAY GET A FEW SHWRS AROUND. OTHERWISE H85 TEMPS FALL TO AROUND +7 DEG C WITH WINDS GRADUALLY DCRSG AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES IN FM CTRL MT. TUE CONTS WITH QUICK ZNL FLO OVR AREA. MOISTURE WL DCRS...BUT SRN AREAS WL STILL BE UNDER A LTL INFLUENCE OF JET...SO HAVE GONE WITH ISOLD POPS. TEMPS WL BE A LTL BELOW AVERAGE WITH H85 TEMPS SLOWLY WARMING TO +11 TO +14 DEG C OVR CWA. SE WINDS OVR AREA WL LIKELY LIMIT WARMING A BIT. TUE NIGHT MOISTURE INCRS OVR WRN CWA IN RESPONSE TO UPR LVL S/W. ETA SHOWING GD LIFT WITH IT...ESP OVR BLK HLS. HAVE GONE WITH 20-30 POPS HERE. OTHERWISE...LOWS SHLD BE A LTL WARMER THAN TNGT WITH WARMER H85 TEMPS AND MORE CLDS. EXTENDED LKS GD AND NO CHANGES MADE. .UNR...NONE JMG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:08 AM MST, 7 minutes before
SDZ014-032-043-046-181045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 408 AM MDT MON JUN 18 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AS OF 4 AM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS HAD EXITED THE WATCH AREA. JMG
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornado in Wisconsin, June 18, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, June 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 18, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, June 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 18, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 18, 2001
- Tornado in Wisconsin, June 18, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 18, 2001
- High Wind in Michigan, June 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 18, 2001
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, June 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: 5253820.