Dust Devil, Meade
- When
- July 5, 1:35 PM MST to 1:36 PM MST
- Where
- Meade County, 3 mi SE of Hereford
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.567, -102.717 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dust Devil in South Dakota, July 5, 2004
A cold air funnel briefly touched the ground in the parking lot of the Hereford store. There was window and door damage to the store, along with the destruction of a picnic table.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $4,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS UNR wrote it up.
A cold air funnel briefly touched the ground in the parking lot of the Hereford store. There was window and door damage to the store, along with the destruction of a picnic table. A vehicle in the parking lot was lifted about a foot off the ground but was not 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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 5, 9:00 AM MST, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 9:00 AM MST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1000 AM MDT MON JUL 5 2004 .DISCUSSION...LATEST SFC ANALYSIS PLACES WEAK LOW OVER NW SD AND AN INVERTED TROF INTO ERN MT. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW OVC SKIES OVER NE WY AND WRN SD. KUDX AND SURROUNDING RADARS INDC EXTENSIVE PRECIP AREA OVER NE WY/SE MT AND INTO WRN SD. WV IMAGES SHOW VORT MAX OVER BIG HORNS AREA. WITH PRECIP WATERS AROUND INCH AND GOOD FORCING FM VORT MAX MOVING THROUGH WILL SEE CATEGORICAL POPS NRN HALF OF CWFA TODAY AND LIKELY SRN HALF. CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE INDICATES THIS THINKING AND HAVE ONLY UPDATED TO MORE CLEARLY DEPICT WHERE PRECIP IS AND WHERE IT IS MOVING/DEVELOPING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. && UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .SD...NONE. .WY...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 5:30 AM MST, 8 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 630 AM MDT MON JUL 5 2004 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-061300- BENNETT-BUTTE-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-HAAKON- HARDING-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-JACKSON-MELLETTE-NORTHEASTERN CROOK- NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS- NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-PERKINS-RAPID CITY- SHANNON-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS- SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-TODD-TRIPP- WESTERN CROOK-WESTON-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-ZIEBACH- 630 AM MDT (730 AM CDT) MON JUL 5 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING AND NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA TODAY...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY UNSETTLED WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR THE LAST HALF OF THE WEEK...WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 10:49 AM MST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1149 AM MDT MON JUL 5 2004 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-072>074-WYZ054>058-071-052200- BENNETT-BUTTE-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-HAAKON- HARDING-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-JACKSON-NORTHEASTERN CROOK- NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS- NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-PERKINS-RAPID CITY- SHANNON-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS- SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-WESTERN CROOK- WESTON-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-ZIEBACH- 1149 AM MDT MON JUL 5 2004 ...COLD AIR FUNNELS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS WITH A FEW OF THESE SHOWERS LATE THIS MORNING. THESE TYPES OF FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE KNOWN AS COLD AIR FUNNELS AND OCCUR OCCASIONALLY IN THIS TYPE OF WEATHER PATTERN. COLD AIR FUNNELS COULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. COLD AIR FUNNELS RARELY TOUCH THE GROUND. HOWEVER...IF YOU DO SEE ONE TOUCH THE GROUND...TAKE COVER TO PROTECT YOURSELF. ST
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dust Devil
- A small rotating column of dust from surface heating that caused damage or injury.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 5, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, July 5 to 6, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, July 5, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 5, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, July 5, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 5, 2004
- Tornadoes in Missouri, July 5, 2004
- Hail in Kansas, July 5, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 5, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Tennessee, July 5 to 6, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, July 5, 2004
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 5, 2004
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, July 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: 5412574.