Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 7, 2005

Name: Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 7, 2005
Start: 2005-05-07T19:15
End: 2005-05-07T19:15
Location: South Dakota

May 7, 2005 · NWS FSD · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 May 7, 1:39 PM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 1:39 PM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
239 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005

.DISCUSSION...
COMPLEX WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUES WITH VIRTUALLY NO PERIOD OVER THE
NEXT 7 DAYS GUARANTEED TO BE DRY. THE BEST SHOT AT A DRY PERIOD WILL
BE MONDAY EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. OTHERWISE...POPS EVERY
PERIOD. OVERALL...PRETTY MUCH A 100 PERCENT CHANCE THAT EVERYONE IS
GOING TO SEE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SOMETIME BETWEEN NOW AND FRIDAY.
RIGHT NOW...LOOKS LIKE BEST CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE SUNDAY
NIGHT AND THEN TUESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY.

IN THE SHORT TERM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MAINLY WEST OF THE
JAMES RIVER THROUGH 700 PM CDT. NICE WAVE MOVING NORTH INTO WESTERN
NEBRASKA AT THIS TIME WITH COLD FRONT PUSHING EAST OUT OF THE
PANHANDLE OF TEXAS. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE
ACROSS THIS AREA WITH MAIN STORM MOTION NORTH. STRONGER STORMS WILL
TRACK A LITTLE MORE NORTHEASTERLY AND WILL LIKELY NEED TO GET A FEW
STORMS LIKE THIS TO GET INTO CENTRAL SD AS SFC FRONT PRETTY FAR
WEST. THE REMAINDER OF THE CWA SHOULD REMAIN MAINLY DRY THIS
EVENING...BUT THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD EAST
TONIGHT...AND LOW LEVEL THETA E ADVECTION INCREASES QUITE A BIT
AFTER 06Z...SO HAVE PUT SOME SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE
EASTERN CWA TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORNING.

TOMORROW ALSO INTERESTING AS SFC COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE WESTERN
CWA...AND POTENTIAL FOR A PRE FRONTAL TROUGH OVER NORTHWEST IOWA.
INCREASE POPS DURING THE AFTERNOON OVER THE WEST ALONG COLD FRONT
AND OVER NORTHWEST IA NEAR POTENTIAL PREFRONTAL TROUGH. SEVERE
WEATHER A DEFINITE THREAT...AS INSTABILITY AND SHEAR BOTH MODERATE
SO WILL HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR THIS.

OUTSIDE OF MONDAY MORNING...SHOULD REMAIN MOSTLY DRY FROM MONDAY
THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING.

FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...STILL LOOKING VERY UNSETTLED AND
POTENTIALLY VERY WET. MODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT...AS CONSISTENT AS
ONE CAN EXPECT AT THIS POINT IN TIME ANYWAY...WITH STRONG LOW TO MID
LEVEL BAROCLINICITY HANGING OUT NEAR THE CWA DURING THIS ENTIRE
TIME. STILL LOOKING LIKE HEAVY RAIN THE MAJOR THREAT DURING THIS
TIME FRAME...ALTHOUGH SEVERE STORMS...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE
90...CANNOT BE RULED OUT AS SFC FRONT SHOULD BE FAIRLY CLOSE TO THE
AREA. WILL HAVE A FAIRLY STOUT GRADIENT FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ON
WEDNESDAY WITH POTENTIAL TO EASILY WARM INTO THE 80S IF FRONT PUSHES
NORTH OF ANY LOCATIONS. AREAS NORTH SHOULD SEE ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER
AND POSSIBLY PRECIP SO WILL STAY AT OR BELOW GUIDANCE. RIGHT
NOW...CONTINUES TO LOOK LIKE BEST CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD RAINFALL
WILL BE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY.

&&

.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
MN...NONE.
IA...NONE.
NE...NONE.

&&

08

Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 3:30 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
430 PM CDT SAT MAY 07 2005

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-081200-
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-
430 PM CDT SAT MAY 07 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON WEST
OF THE JAMES RIVER...AND ALONG HIGHWAY 14. THE MAIN THREAT WITH
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...ALTHOUGH THERE IS A
POTENTIAL FOR AN ISOLATED TORNADO THROUGH 9 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP WEST OF INTERSTATE 29 SUNDAY
AFTERNOON AND SPREAD EAST DURING THE NIGHT. THESE STORMS COULD BE
SEVERE.

ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY BRINGING
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD
BE SEVERE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SOUTH OF A YANKTON TO
STORM LAKE LINE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY WEST OF THE JAMES RIVER AFTER
500 PM.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

08

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 5:14 PM CST, 2 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
614 PM CDT SAT MAY 07 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0602 PM     TSTM WND GST     GREGORY                 43.23N 99.43W
05/07/2005  62 MPH           GREGORY            SD   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN ABOUT 1/4 MILE SOUTH OF TOWN.

&&

JHACKER

Local storm report, May 7, 6:07 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
707 PM CDT SAT MAY 07 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

&&

JHACKER

Local storm report, May 7, 6:33 PM CST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
733 PM CDT SAT MAY 07 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0645 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 E KIMBALL             43.75N 98.86W
05/07/2005  65 MPH           BRULE              SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

0650 PM     HAIL             4 W SPIRIT LAKE         43.42N 95.19W
05/07/2005  0.88 INCH        DICKINSON          IA   BROADCAST MEDIA

0722 PM     TSTM WND GST     MITCHELL                43.73N 98.03W
05/07/2005  0 MPH            DAVISON            SD   PUBLIC

            POWER LINES DOWN AND TREES BROKEN OFF IN MITCHELL. REPORT
            RELAYED TO NWS VIA LAW ENFORCEMENT. WIND SPEED UNKNOWN.

&&

JHACKER

Local storm report, May 7, 6:48 PM CST, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
748 PM CDT SAT MAY 07 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     HAIL             ARLINGTON               44.36N 97.13W
05/07/2005  0.88 INCH        KINGSBURY          SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:13 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Brookings

When: May 7, 7:15 PM CST
Where: Brookings County, 12 mi SW of Brookings
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.200, -96.950

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in South Dakota in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in South Dakota, May 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: 5453177.