Name: Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 26, 2002
Start: 2002-07-26T16:20
End: 2002-07-26T16:20
Location: Wyoming

Where it happened

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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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 26, 1:50 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 1:50 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
250 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 2002

FORECAST CHALLENGES TODAY ARE TEMPS AND COVERAGE OF PCPN OVER NEXT
COUPLE OF DAYS. NEAR ZONAL FLOW OVER N CONUS CONTINUES TO BRING
QUICK MOVING SHRTWVS ACROSS THE REGION. ONE NOW MOVING INTO E SD
WHILE THE NEXT ONE BEHIND IT IS OVER S MT AND N WY. MODELS IN PRETTY
GOOD AGREEMENT...BUT WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW ETA THRU THE SHORT TERM.
WENT A FEW DEGREES ABOVE ALL GUIDANCE FOR HIGH TEMPS FOR SAT AND
SUN.

FOR TONIGHT...WIDELY SCT STORMS EXPECTED AS WAVE MOVES EASTWARD INTO
THE DAKOTAS. BEST CHANCES WILL BE ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN ZONES.
SVR WX POTENTIAL LOOKS MINIMAL...BUT A STRONG STORM OR TWO IS
POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY NE WY AND NW SD. THOUGH SOME DRIER AIR HAS
MOVED INTO NE WY THIS AFT...STORMS THAT MOVE ACROSS ARE EXPECTED TO
BE ACCOMPANIED BY SOME RAINFALL...SO THE CONCERN FOR DRY LIGHTNING
WILL BE MINIMIZED. THEREFORE...FIRE WX WATCH FOR NE WY AND THE HILLS
HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

TOMORROW WILL REMAIN WARM AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. IT
WILL BECOME BREEZY AT TIMES IN THE AFT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NW SD.
COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO REACH NORTHERN ZONES AROUND 00Z AND WORK
ITS WAY SOUTHWARD OVERNIGHT. COMBINED WITH ANOTHER SHRTWV MOVING
THRU...THIS SHOULD BE THE FOCUS FOR SCT SHOWERS AND STORMS.

SUN AND MON WILL BE COOLER WITH HIGH TEMPS IN THE 80S AND LOW
HUMIDITIES. LONG RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO BUILD UPPER HIGH OVER THE
SW CONUS EARLY NEXT WEEK. SO TEMPS WILL WARM UP AGAIN...WITH HIGHS
BACK INTO THE 90S FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK.

.UNR...NONE

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The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Crook

When: July 26, 4:20 PM MST
Where: Crook County, Alva
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.683, -104.433

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.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Wyoming in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Wyoming, 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: 5304767.