Thunderstorm Wind, Dundy
- When
- August 4, 8:15 PM MST
- Where
- Dundy County, 3 mi W of Parks
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.050, -101.767
Garage damaged by thunderstorm winds.
Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 4, 2002
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
- $5,000
- 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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 7:25 PM MST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 7:25 PM MST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 825 PM MDT SUN AUG 4 2002 SLOW MOVING CLUSTER OF STORMS OVER EASTERN COLORADO WILL CONTINUE LIFTING SLOWLY ACROSS EXTREME NORTHWEST PART OF CWA. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL BE ACROSS YUMA COUNTY COLORADO WHERE LOCAL AMOUNTS OF 1-3 INCHES SEEM LIKELY. WILL RAISE PRECIP CHANCES IN THE NW TO 90 PERCENT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF CWA FOR ANOTHER COUPLE HOURS...THEN SUBSIDE AND/OR ADVECT OUT OF THE AREA. WILL UPDATE ZONES HIGHLIGHTING THIS EVENING WITH HEAVY RAIN AND INCREASED POPS ACROSS THE WEST AND NORTH...THEN GO WITH MUCH REDUCED PRECIP CHANCES AFTER MIDNIGHT...DROPPING POPS INTO THE 20-40 RANGE. THIS WILL REQUIRE ONE MORE UPDATE AROUND MIDNIGHT TO REMOVE TEMPORAL WORDING. NO OTHER BIG CHANGES PLANNED AT THE MOMENT OTHER THAN TO ADJUST/CORRECT SOME CLOUD WORDING IN A FEW ZONES IN THE EXTENDED PERIODS. .GLD...NONE. DLF
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:16 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
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- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 4, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 4, 2002
- Wildfire in California, August 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 4, 2002
- Tropical Storm in Louisiana, August 4 to 5, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Texas, August 4, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, August 4, 2002
- Tropical Storm in Mississippi, August 4 to 5, 2002
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 2002
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: 5313400.