1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 3, 9:00 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 1000 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 HAVE SENT OUT AN UPDATE TO INCREASE POPS THIS MORNING ACROSS THE NORTH CENTRAL ZONES WITH A DECENT AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM WEST OF KMBG TO NEAR IPSWICH...MOVING EAST INTO THE NORTHEASTERN ZONES BY MID DAY. WITH THE SURFACE LOW CENTERED OVER SOUTHEAST ND...HAVE KMBG AND SITES WESTWARD ALREADY WITH A WEST/NORTHWEST WIND...AND SITES ACROSS EASTERN SD WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS. EXPECT FRONT TO PUSH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. LATEST RUC SOUNDINGS STILL INDICATE LARGE INSTABILITY AND GOOD CAPE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE EASTERN ZONES. HAVE INCREASED POPS TO 50 PERCENT FROM KATY NORTH TO KETH. OTHERWISE FORECAST LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK...AND JUST CHANGED WORDING TO AREAL COVERAGE TERMS FOR PRECIPITATION. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. && ALBRECHT
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 456 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-041033- BIG STONE-BROWN-BUFFALO-CAMPBELL-CLARK-CODINGTON-CORSON-DAY-DEUEL- DEWEY-EDMUNDS-FAULK-GRANT-HAMLIN-HAND-HUGHES-HYDE-JONES-LYMAN- MARSHALL-MCPHERSON-POTTER-ROBERTS-SPINK-STANLEY-SULLY-TRAVERSE- WALWORTH- 456 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AS WELL AS BIG STONE AND TRAVERSE COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR STORMS IN THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...INDEPENDENCE DAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. KNUTSVIG
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 154 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:48 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Large branches were downed in Wheaton. One branch took down a power line.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, July 2004
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: 5416077.