Thunderstorm Wind, Sawyer
- When
- July 27, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Sawyer County, Radisson
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.767, -91.200
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, July 27, 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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 27, 1:20 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 1:20 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 220 PM CDT SAT JUL 27 2002 STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS (BOW ECHO) MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN COUNTIES AT THIS TIME. A STRONG MID-LEVEL JET STREAK COUPLED WITH CAPES OF 1500 J/KG RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. SHOULD BE A TREACHEROUS NEXT FEW HOURS UNTIL THIS LINE PASSES THROUGH. EXPECT THE MAIN SEVERE THREAT TO END EARLY EVENING. FOR TONIGHT...LOOK FOR VORT MAX TO EXIT THE REGION DURING THE EARLY EVENING. AIR MASS WILL DRY AND AIRMASS WILL STABILIZE SOMEWHAT AS WEAK SFC COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH. WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS IN FOR REMNANTS OF SYSTEM FOR THE EVENING WITH PRECIP BECOME CONSIDERABLY MORE SCATTERED OVERNIGHT. ON SUNDAY THE WEST WINDS WILL NOT ADVECT MUCH DRY AIR. SFC DEWPOINTS WILL STILL BE IN THE 60S OVER MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA WITH AFTERNOON SBCAPES OVER 1000 J/KG. SHEAR IS NOT IMPRESSIVE AND THERE WONT BE THE INTENSE COOLING AT MID-LEVELS AS THERE WAS TODAY. DO EXPECT SCT SHRA/TSRA...MAINLY SOUTH FOR SUNDAY. AS THE WEAK VORT MAX EXITS THE REGION SUNDAY NIGHT...TSRA ACTIVITY WILL END SOON AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY NIGHT. RESULT IN CLEARING SKIES FOR MONDAY. RIDGING ON MONDAY WILL MAKE THE DAY SUNNY AND PLEASANT. CONCERNING TEMPERATURES...WENT CLOSE TO MAV GUIDANCE. .DLH...NONE. KFM
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:12 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 27 to 28, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 27, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 27, 2002
- Tornado in Florida, July 27, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 27, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, July 27, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 27, 2002
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 27, 2002
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, July 27, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 27, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 27, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 27, 2002
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5313181.