Thunderstorms produced damaging winds over part of southeast South Dakota during the late afternoon and evening of August 30th. There were also two reports of large hail and one report of flash flooding.
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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 episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Thunderstorms produced damaging winds over part of southeast South Dakota during the late afternoon and evening of August 30th. There were also two reports of large hail and one report of flash flooding. The severe weather and flash flood reports were near or west of the James River, except for one damaging wind report in eastern Kingsbury County.
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 Aug 30, 2:13 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
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</html>The North Platte radar (KLNX), 158 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:22 UTC.
14 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large branches blown down.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 5 inch diameter branches blown down. The winds also blew a tin part of a roof off a house, and blew a hay bale across a road.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
Thunderstorm winds blew a wagon into a home, damaging the home. The winds also blew a door off a barn.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The winds were accompanied by quarter size hail.
Large hail was accompanied by damaging winds.
Thunderstorm winds destroyed 5 grain bins and caused extensive tree damage. Trees up to 3 feet in diameter were uprooted.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large branches blown down.
Thunderstorm winds blew the door off a shed and caused tree damage, including large branches blown down.
Thunderstorm winds tore 15 feet of soffit from a house.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 12 inch diameter limbs blown down.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, with a few branches blown down.
Thunderstorm winds blew over a semi truck, and cause tree damage, including several trees blown down.
Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several roads and low areas.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, August 2010
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: 257302, 257304, 257306, 257307, 257311, 257312, 257313, 257364, 257366, 257367, 257370, 257373, 257392, 257393, 257395, 257396, 257397.