Thunderstorm Wind, Hyde
- When
- July 21, 1:00 AM CST
- Where
- Hyde County, Highmore
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 44.517, -99.433
Winds over 60 mph brought some trees and branches down in Highmore.
Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 21, 2002
1 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
- 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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 8:35 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 8:35 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/N-EAST SD AND W-CENTRAL MN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 935 PM CDT SAT JUL 20 2002 CONVECTION IN W SD LATE THIS EVENING WAS INCREASING IN COVERAGE AS SHOWN BY RADARS...COOLING AND EXPANDING TOPS ON SATELLITE AND INCREASING LIGHTNING ACTIVITY. AS THE LLJ INCREASES FROM THE S THROUGH THE NIGHT AND INTERSECTS THE BOUNDARY ACROSS S SD WHILE THE CAP TO THE NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY WEAKENS...THIS CONVECTION SHOULD CONTINUE TO EXPAND NORTHEAST ACROSS MUCH OF THE ABR CWA THROUGH THE NIGHT AND EXIT NE SD AND WC MN SUN MRNG. THEREFORE...HAVE INCREASED POPS FOR TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA AND CONTINUED THEM IN THE NE PART OF THE CWA ON SUN MRNG. TEMPS WILL FALL INTO THE UPPER 60S TO THE LOWER 70S BY MRNG WITH N TO NE WINDS AT 5 TO 15 MPH CONTINUING N OF THE BOUNDARY. UPDATED FORECAST AND MADE CHANGES. .ABR...NONE MOHR
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 21, 12:50 AM CST, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
150 AM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0125 AM PIERRE SD 59 MPH WIND GUST
07/21/02 HUGHES
PARKINThe 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
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 21, 2002
- Wildfire in California, July 21 to 31, 2002
- Wildfire in California, July 21 to 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 21, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, July 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 21, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, July 21, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 21, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 21, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 21, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 21, 2002
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, July 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5309665.