Thunderstorm Wind, Weston
- When
- August 6, 7:40 PM MST
- Where
- Weston County, Upton
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.100, -104.633
A ten inch diameter tree was snapped and landed on a car.
Damaging Wind in Wyoming, August 6, 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
- $2,000
- 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 6, 7:00 PM MST, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 7:00 PM MST, 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 800 PM MDT TUE AUG 6 2002 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WYOMING. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATING A WEAK WAVE LIFTING NORTHWARD THROUGH THE MID LEVEL MOISTURE PLUME. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO GRADUALLY WIND DOWN THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. MADE SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO GRIDS AND FORECAST. .UNR...NONE. 07
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
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 6 to 8, 2002
- Flash Flood in Arizona, August 6, 2002
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 6, 2002
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 6, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, August 6 to 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 6, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 6, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, August 6, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 6, 2002
- Tornado in Florida, August 6, 2002
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, 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: 5310530.