Thunderstorm Wind, Ida
- When
- June 11, 2:39 AM CST
- Where
- Ida County, Ida Grove
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 42.350, -95.467
Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 11, 2004
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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 7:30 PM CST, 7 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 7:30 PM CST, 7 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 830 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2004 .DISCUSSION... CRNT TOR WATCH IN CNTRL SD WL LIKELY BE REPLACED WITH A NEW WW SHORTLY FOR AREAS FURTHER EWD INTO THE FSD FA. ATTM...SUPERCELL CLUSTERS HAVE MERGED INTO A LINE OF STRONG TO SVR TS FM N CNTRL SD TO N CNTRL KS. IN THE PAST FEW 88D SCANS...THERE HAS BEEN SOME PROGRESSIVE EWD MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE...WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL CELLS CONT TO MOV NEARLY STRAIGHT NWD. INCREDIBLY STRONG DIR WIND SHEAR EXISTS PER THE RUC40 AND META SNDGS THIS EVENING OVER THE FAR WRN FSD FA...BUT WITH MINIMAL SPEED SHEAR. MODERATE INSTABILITY IS ALSO RELAVENT ACRS THE WEST. MY MAIN CONCERN ATTM IS STILL A THREAT FOR SOME POCKETS OF LARGE HAIL HERE AND THERE...MAYBE AS A STORM CATCHES AN UPDRAFT. WITH THE SNDGS AS SATURATED AS THEY ARE AS THE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME PROGRESSES...A THREAT OF A WET MICROBURST COULD ALSO BE A POSSIBILITY...HOWEVER THE LOW LVL FLOW IS SE...THEN SSE FM THE SFC TO 2 KM AGL. THEREFORE THOUGHTS ATTM ARE NOT TO EXPECT WIDESPREAD STRONG WINDS TRANSLATING DOWN TO THE SFC...HOWEVER THIS AFOREMENTIONED STRONG DIR WIND SHEAR COULD PRODUCE THE HAILERS. GOING FCST IS IN GOOD SHAPE ATTM. NOT SURE IF I WILL BE SENDING AN UPDATE TO THE ZFP TEXT OTHER THAN TO INCLUDE THE NEW WW. GOING GRIDS LOOK TO HAVE AN EXCELLENT HANDLE ON THE PROGRESSION OF THIS TS LINE. HAVE TWEAKED A FEW MINOR PARAMTERS AND UPLOADED THEM INTO THE GRIDDED DATABASE ALREADY...SUCH AS TEMPS AND DEW PTS. TWEAKED DOWN THE LOWS IN SW MN A COUPLE OF DEGS DUE TO CRNT TEMPS...HOWEVER TEMPS WL LIKELY BE RATHER STEADY IN THAT AREA FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT. HARD TO UPDATE SKY COVER WITH NO SAT IMAGERY COMING IN. FLOOD WATCH WL CONT IN THE ADVISED AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. THAT ONE IS A NO BRAINER WITH THE KIND OF ECHOES WE HAVE UPSTREAM. && .FSD...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...FLOOD WATCH JAMES VALLEY AND W 9 PM TO 6 AM TONIGHT. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. && MJF
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 3:33 PM CST, 11 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 433 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2004 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-111200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 433 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON FROM WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA INTO NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE TO THE EAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS...AND INTO SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AROUND SUNSET...THEN INTO SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA BY FRIDAY MORNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRING A THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...MOSTLY WEST OF A DE SMET TO YANKTON LINE. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED EAST OF THIS LINE. L FLOODING... HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF THREE INCHES IS POSSIBLE WEST OF A LINE FROM DE SMET TO YANKTON. WITH SATURATED GROUND FROM RAIN ON TUESDAY NIGHT...THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A MORE SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 29 ON FRIDAY. LOW PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA...REACHING SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA BY LATE AFTERNOON. THE AIR ALONG AND EAST OF THE LOW IS EXPECTED TO BECOME VERY UNSTABLE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP NEAR THE LOW DURING THE AFTERNOON...NEAR OR EAST OF INTERSTATE 29. DUE TO THE EXPECTED SHEAR IN THE ATMOSPHERE...SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY DEVELOP INTO SUPERCELLS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS...MAINLY OVER AREAS OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 7 PM. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 12:08 AM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 108 AM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004 SDZ038-050-052-053-057>059-063-064-110630- AURORA-BEADLE-BRULE-CHARLES MIX-DAVISON-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-JERAULD- SANBORN- 108 AM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 431 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR BEADLE... JERAULD...SANBORN...DAVISON...AURORA...BRULE...GREGORY...CHARLES MIX...AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA.
Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:23 AM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
123 AM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1124 PM TSTM WND GST PARKSTON 43.39N 97.99W
06/10/2004 80 MPH HUTCHINSON SD BROADCAST MEDIA
1145 PM HAIL 5 NE MITCHELL 43.78N 97.96W
06/10/2004 0.88 INCH HANSON SD LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
JBSpecial weather statement, Jun 11, 1:15 AM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 215 AM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004 NEZ013-014-SDZ060-061-065>071-110735- BON HOMME-CLAY-DAKOTA NE-DIXON NE-HANSON-HUTCHINSON-LINCOLN-MCCOOK- TURNER-UNION-YANKTON- 215 AM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EXPIRED FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 431 HAS BEEN EXPIRED FOR HANSON... MC COOK...HUTCHINSON...TURNER...LINCOLN...BON HOMME...YANKTON... CLAY AND UNION COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. ALSO FOR DIXON AND DAKOTA COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:38 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 in Minnesota, June 11, 2004
- Tornadoes in Iowa, June 11, 2004
- Tornadoes in Iowa, June 11, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 11, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 11, 2004
- Tornado in Iowa, June 11, 2004
- Flooding in Wisconsin, June 11 to 12, 2004
- Flooding in Indiana, June 11 to 28, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 11, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 11, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, June 11, 2004
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, June 2004
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: 5409515.