1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 22, 1:30 PM MST, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY 230 PM MDT WED MAY 22 2002 CURRENT SURFACE MAP SHOWS LOW PRESSURE OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS ACROSS EASTERN PORTION OF CWA...WITH WINDS SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING. A FEW SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE BLACK HILLS WITH MORE NUMEROUS SHOWERS ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING. WILL KEEP WIND ADVISORY GOING THROUGH THE NIGHT...WITH STRONGEST WINDS ACROSS NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA. FOR TONIGHT...COLD ADVECTION INCREASES WITH WINDS SHIFTING MORE TO THE NORTHWEST. SURFACE LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST. SHOWERS ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING/NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THE NIGHT. 850MB TEMPERATURES DROP BELOW ZERO...SO SOME SNOW EXPECTED LATER TONIGHT...WITH NO ACCUMULATIONS. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN COOL ON THURSDAY. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SUPPORT A BROKEN CUMULUS DECK IN THE AFTERNOON...BUT NO MUCH IN THE WAY OF SHOWER ACTIVITY EXPECTED. NEXT SHORTWAVE TO MOVE THROUGH FRIDAY...BRINGING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. UPPER LEVEL FLOW BECOMES MORE ZONAL OVER THE WEEKEND. WILL BE A WARM DAY SUNDAY AHEAD OF NEXT FRONT. MUCH STRONGER RIDGE TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .UNR...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR THE PLAINS OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds developed over extreme northwestern South Dakota. Harding County saw sustained winds 45 to 55 mph with gusts to 66 mph during the afternoon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, May 2002
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: 5291573.