Thunderstorm Wind, Harding
- When
- August 31, 4:46 PM MST
- Where
- Harding County, (2wx)buffalo
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 45.600, -103.550
Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 31, 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
- 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 Aug 31, 12:45 PM MST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 12:45 PM MST, 4 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 145 PM MDT SAT AUG 31 2002 QUIETER FORECAST TODAY WITH MAIN CONCERN WINDS TONIGHT FOLLOWED BY TEMPS. FNT WILL CLEAR THE CWA BEFORE ZONE ISSUANCE AND EXPECT POST FRONTAL CONVECTION TO DIE WITH LLVL JET. THIS SHOULD LEAVE SKIES MO SUN TODAY WITH WARM TEMPS. FOR TONIGHT...MDLS SHOW PUSH OF CD AIR BEHIND SCNTRL CAN UPPER WAVE. 850 MB WINDS ARE PROGGED IN THE 35 TO 40 KT RANGE WITH A LITTLE BETTER CAA THAN CURRENTLY OCCURING. THIS SHOULD INCREASE WINDS IN LEE OF BLK HLS TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH POSSIBLY A FEW HIGHER GUSTS...BUT NOTHING NOTEWORTHY ENOUGH FOR A HILITE. AFTER TONIGHT...MDLS SHOW COOLER TEMPS MON FOLLOWED BY WARMING TREND. HOT WX BY MIDWEEK SHOULD END IN THE FRI-SAT TIMEFRAME AS LARGE TROF WHICH AVNX CONT TO SHOW...JUST A LITTLE LATER THOUGH...BARRELS THROUGH THROWING US FM SUMMER TO FALL IN ABOUT 12 HOURS. FOR TEMPS IN THE NEAR TERM GENERALLY FOLLOWED GUIDANCE MEANS AND TWEAKED FRIDAYS TEMP TO WARMER...ESP IN THE E. .UNR...NONE.
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
- Flash Flood and Hail in Minnesota, August 31, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, August 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, August 31, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, August 31, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, August 31, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in New Mexico, August 31, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Montana, August 31, 2002
- Heavy Rain in North Carolina, August 31, 2002
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 31, 2002
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 31, 2002
- Flood in North Carolina, August 31, 2002
- Waterspout in Gulf of Mexico, August 31, 2002
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, 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: 5310908.