Name: Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 7, 2002
Start: 2002-08-07T20:45
End: 2002-08-07T20:45
Location: South Dakota

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 Aug 7, 7:25 PM MST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 7:25 PM MST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
825 PM MDT WED AUG 7 2002

CURRENT SURFACE MAP HAS LOW JUST SOUTHWEST OF KBIS...WITH FRONT
EXTENDING SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE BLACK HILLS. MCS OVER NORTHEAST
WYOMING PRODUCED SOME SEVERE WEATHER EARLIER...BUT HAS TURNED INTO
HEAVY RAIN. MORE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHERN BLACK
HILLS. FRONT NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE VERY MUCH FOR THE REST OF THE
NIGHT. UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE ALSO REMAINS OVER THE AREA THROUGH
MIDNIGHT...HELPING WITH CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT.

FLOOD WATCH ISSUED FOR NORTHERN BLACK HILLS...SPECIFICALLY
FOR THE BURN AREA AROUND DEADWOOD. POTENTIALLY EXISTS FOR SOME HEAVY
RAIN IN THE BURN AREA.

OVERALL THE FORECAST WAS IN DECENT SHAPE...DID MAKE SOME MINOR
CHANGES.

.UNR...FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHERN BLACK HILLS TIL 1AM MDT.
07

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 7, 7:39 PM MST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
839 PM MDT WED AUG 07 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0615 PM    6 E GILLETTE              WY   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/07/02   CAMPBELL                       MOSTLY MARBLE SIZE HAIL

0625 PM    5 W ROZET                 WY   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/07/02   CAMPBELL

0628 PM    12 SW UPTON               WY   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/07/02   WESTON                         2-3 INCH LIMBS BLOWN DOWN

0630 PM    OSAGE                     WY   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/07/02   WESTON

0730 PM    5 NE MOORCROFT            WY   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/07/02   CROOK                          AT PINE HAVEN/KEYHOLE
                                          RESERVIOR

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Meade

When: August 7, 8:45 PM MST
Where: Meade County, 3 mi NW of Fairpt
Measured: 57 kt (66 mph)
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.783, -102.833

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.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in South Dakota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5310535.