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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 5, 2:50 PM CST, 9 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 350 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2005 .DISCUSSION... SITUATION A BIT COMPLICATED WITH CONVECTN CONTG TO DCSR SERN CRNR OF AREA THIS MRNG...BUT ISOLD TRW- TRYING TO SPRD INTO AREA ON WK SHRTWV. WILL CONT THESE TRENDS THRU LATE MRNG WITH A CONTD THREAT OF ISOLD TRW- AS REST OF ACTVTY CONTS TO DCRS...THEN CUT ALL FOR ERY AFTN BEFORE REGENRATION LATE THIS AFTN AND MORE ACTVTY TNGT...MAINLY SRN PART OF FCTS AREA. TEMPS WILL OF CURSE BE COOLR TDA XCP STILL FAIRLY WARM S WHERE CDFNT HAS TRBL MOVG IN. DAY TO DAY VARIATIONS IN CONVECTN LOCATION AND CVRG TRICKY NEXT FEW DAYS BUT WILL CONT VARIED ACTVTY INTO THU. BY THEN HI AMPLITUDE WRN TROF/ERN RDG PATTRN DVLPS...WE ARE CLOSE ENUD TO RDGNG THAT WX SHUD BE MOSTLY DRY FROM FRI ON. HWVR WILL KEEP THE MENTN FOR SAT AS WE HAD IT FOR WK SHRT WV COMNG UP DVLPNG RDG ALG WITH WAA. WILL KEEP DRY FOR SUN AND MON AND MAY AS WELL TAKE A SHOT AT KEEONG IT THAT WAY FOR NEW DAY 7 PRELIM GRIDS FOR NEXT TUE. MEANWHILE TEMPS TRY TO WARM BACK TO FAIRLY WARM LEVELS. CUD OF COURSE BE MORE CONVECTV ACTVTY IN THIS PATTRN AND IN FACT WHOLE FCST IS IN QSTN THAT FAR AHD. MODELS SEEM TO BE CONSISTNT ON DVLPG THIS PATTRN...BUT CANADIAN FOR EXAMPL TRIES TO BRK RDG DOWN A LTL FASTR END OF PD. && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. && WILLIAMS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 925 AM CDT MON SEP 05 2005 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-061200- 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- 925 AM CDT MON SEP 05 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MID MORNING ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...AND SHOULD DECREASE BY NOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP FROM THE NORTHWEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS. FIRE DANGER... THE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER INDEX IS EXPECTED TO BE VERY HIGH THIS AFTERNOON NEAR AND WEST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER FROM CHAMBERLAIN TO PICKSTOWN. TEMPERATURES REACHING THE 90S...SOUTH WINDS 20 TO 35 MPH...AND RELATIVELY DRY VEGETATION WILL ALL CONTRIBUTE TO MAKING THE FIRE DANGER VERY HIGH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TUESDAY AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES TO JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE SOUTHEAST OF A GREGORY TO MITCHELL TO BROOKINGS LINE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 5 PM NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM BROOKINGS TO WAGNER. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA AFTER 9 PM. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
836 PM CDT MON SEP 05 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0825 PM TSTM WND GST HITCHCOCK 44.63N 98.41W
09/05/2005 70 MPH BEADLE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
ESTIMATED 40-50 MPH SUSTAINED WINDS.
&&
MJFPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
920 PM CDT MON SEP 05 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0915 PM HAIL WESSINGTON 44.45N 98.70W
09/05/2005 0.75 INCH BEADLE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
923 PM CDT MON SEP 05 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0920 PM HAIL HURON 44.36N 98.22W
09/05/2005 0.75 INCH BEADLE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
0920 PM HAIL 1 W HURON 44.36N 98.24W
09/05/2005 0.75 INCH BEADLE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1015 PM CDT MON SEP 05 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0945 PM HAIL 13 S WESSINGTON 44.27N 98.70W
09/05/2005 1.25 INCH BEADLE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1240 AM CDT TUE SEP 06 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1140 PM TSTM WND GST ORLAND 43.89N 97.19W
09/05/2005 60 MPH LAKE SD EMERGENCY MNGR
BRANCHES DOWN
1225 AM HAIL HUMBOLDT 43.65N 97.07W
09/06/2005 0.88 INCH MINNEHAHA SD FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
1151 PM TSTM WND DMG DELL RAPIDS 43.82N 96.71W
09/05/2005 MINNEHAHA SD EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES DOWN AND POWER OUT.
&&
BTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1244 AM CDT TUE SEP 06 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1140 PM TSTM WND GST ORLAND 43.89N 97.19W
09/05/2005 60 MPH LAKE SD EMERGENCY MNGR
BRANCHES DOWN
1151 PM TSTM WND DMG DELL RAPIDS 43.82N 96.71W
09/05/2005 MINNEHAHA SD EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES DOWN AND POWER OUT.
1225 AM HAIL HUMBOLDT 43.65N 97.07W
09/06/2005 0.88 INCH MINNEHAHA SD FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
&&
BTThe Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:09 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree blown down onto a county road.
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