Thunderstorm Wind, Price
- When
- September 2, 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Price County, 4 mi S of Kennan
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 45.483, -90.583
Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, September 2, 2002
Trees were blown down and two silos were heavily damaged.
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 happened
The episode as NWS DLH wrote it up.
Trees were blown down and two silos were heavily damaged.
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 Sep 2, 12:30 AM CST, 15 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 12:30 AM CST, 15 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 130 AM CDT MON SEP 2 2002 MAIN FOCUS WILL BE SVR TSTM THREAT THIS MRNG. VIGOROUS CDFNT POWERED BY STG MID/UPR LVL DYNAMICS WL SWEEP RAPIDLY THRU MN THIS MRNG AND THRU WI THIS AFTN. THE FNT IS SHOWING UP ON REGIONAL MOSAIC RADAR AS A LINEAR FEATURE BTWN BIS AND JMS. CONVECTION IS BREAKING OUT IN THE CONVERGENT AREA AND SGFNT PRESSURE FALLS AHD OF THE FTN IN THAT AREA. STG SWLY FLOW AND IMPRESSIVE SHEAR THRU THE MID LVLS SUPPORT THE MDT RISK AREA OF SPC. ONCE THE FNT GOES THRU, ENERGY FM THE 100KT JET DRIVING THE S/WV MIXES DOWN TO PRODUCE SOME GUSTY WINDS THAT RAPIDLY END THE SVR THREAT IN THE NVA AREA. WELL HIT THE FCST RATHER HARD EARLY ON WITH A MENTION OF PSBL SVR IN MOST MN AREAS THIS MRNG AND IN WI FOR THE LATE MRNG/AFTN PD. ETA/MESOETA HAS THE SFC DETAILS EARLY ON AND WELL FOLLOW THAT GDNC SINCE NO BIG CHANGES NEEDED ATTM. .DLH...NONE. CS
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
- Tornado in Wisconsin, September 2, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, September 2, 2002
- Rip Current in New York, September 2, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, September 2, 2002
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, September 2, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Erie, September 2, 2002
- Hail in Minnesota, September 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, September 2, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Erie, September 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, September 2, 2002
- Flash Flooding in New York, September 2, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Erie, September 2, 2002
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, September 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: 5320235.