High Wind, Dakota
- When
- January 22, 1:00 AM CST to 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dakota forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 42.391, -96.564 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Nebraska, January 22, 2005
High winds, with sustained speeds of 40 mph for several hours, and gusts estimated to near 60 mph, caused minor damage to trees, roofs, and road signs.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 2
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 FSD wrote it up.
High winds, with sustained speeds of 40 mph for several hours, and gusts estimated to near 60 mph, caused minor damage to trees, roofs, and road signs.
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 Jan 21, 8:50 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 8:50 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
850 PM CST FRI JAN 21 2005
.DISCUSSION...
WINDS HAVE PICKED UP QUICKER THAN FCST AND HAVE UPDATED TO MOVE UP
HIGH WND WARNING AND ADVYS. STG WNDS CAUSING BLOWING SNOW IN MML
AREA...BUT BORDERLINE FOR BLIZZARD WARNING AS IT WL ONLY LAST A
SHORT TIME AS BAND OF SNOW AHEAD OF FNT MOVG ACRS SW MN FOLLOWED BY
JUST A FEW FLURRIES. CLEARING WL ALSO SPREAD ACRS CWA OVERNIGHT AND
IS MOVING INTO WRN CWA QUICKER THAN PREV FCST.
&&
.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...WIND ADVY UNTIL NOON SATURDAY FOR SDZ038>040-050-052>068
HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL NOON SATURDAY FOR SDZ069>071
NE...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL NOON SATURDAY FOR NEZ014-014
MN...WIND ADVY UNTIL NOON SATURDAY FOR MNZ097-098
HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL NOON SATURDAY FOR MNZ071-071-080-089
HIGH WIND WARNING 10 PM TONIGHT TO NOON SATURDAY FOR
MNZ081-090
IA...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL NOON SATURDAY FOR IAZ012-020-031
HIGH WIND WARNING FROM 10 PM TONIGHT TO NOON SATURDAY FOR
IAZ002-003-013-014-021-022-032
&&Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 21, 5:24 PM CST, 7 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 524 PM CST FRI JAN 21 2005 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-221200- 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- 524 PM CST FRI JAN 21 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT WIND... STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 45 MPH WILL PERSIST THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. THE WINDS WILL DECREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Dixon
- When
- January 22, 1:00 AM CST to 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dixon forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph) estimated sustained
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 42.493, -96.868 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in New Jersey, January 22 to 23, 2005
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 22 to 23, 2005
- Winter Storm in Ohio, January 22 to 23, 2005
- High Wind in Iowa, January 22, 2005
- Storm Surge and Blizzard in Massachusetts, January 22 to 23, 2005
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 22 to 23, 2005
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 22 to 23, 2005
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, January 22 to 23, 2005
- Strong Wind in Georgia, January 22 to 23, 2005
- Blizzard in Iowa, January 22, 2005
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, January 22 to 23, 2005
- Winter Storm in Wisconsin, January 22 to 23, 2005
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, January 2005
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: 5434787, 5434788.