Thunderstorm Wind, Traverse
- When
- July 31, 4:20 AM CST
- Where
- Traverse County, 7 mi NE of Wheaton
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.867, -96.400
Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 31, 2002
2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 2
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 Jul 31, 3:30 AM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 3:30 AM CST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/N-EAST SD AND W-CENTRAL MN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 430 AM CDT WED JUL 31 2002 PRETTY BUSY NIGHT SO FAR...DISCUSSION WILL BE SHORT. THUNDERSTORMS LIGHTING UP ALONG LOW LEVEL JET WITH THE HELP OF STRONG WARM ADVECTION. THESE STORMS WILL DEPART THE AREA BY MORNING. NEXT BATCH IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AS COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH. BY TONIGHT FRONT IS THROUGH AND STRONG COLD ADVECTION TAKES OVER. THURSDAY WILL BE QUITE A BIT COOLER THAN TODAY. MOS PICKING VALUES IN MID 70S. WENT SLIGHTLY WARMER ALTHOUGH HAVE A FEELING IT MIGHT BE UNDER ESTIMATING STRENGTH OF COLD PUSH. FRIDAY SHOWING NEXT WAVE MOVING INTO THE AREA ON THE SOUTHERN STREAM OF THE UPPER FLOW. .ABR...NONE. KEEFE
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 163 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:20 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Traverse
- When
- July 31, 4:40 AM CST
- Where
- Traverse County, 3 mi S of Tintah
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.967, -96.333
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
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, July 31, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, July 31, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, July 31, 2002
- Flash Flood in Missouri, July 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 31, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Huron, July 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, July 31, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 31, 2002
- Hail in Minnesota, July 31, 2002
More
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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5309588, 5309589.