Flash Flood, Butte
- When
- July 1, 1:30 PM MST to 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Butte County, 8.2 mi NNW of Belle Fourche Airport to 5.61 mi SW of Belle Fourche
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 44.780, -103.960
Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 1, 2011
Runoff from heavy rain caused street flooding in Belle Fourche and minor flooding along Hay Creek.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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.
Runoff from heavy rain caused street flooding in Belle Fourche and minor flooding along Hay Creek.
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 1, 1:20 PM MST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 1:20 PM MST, 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 3:35 AM MST, 9 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 435 AM MDT FRI JUL 1 2011 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-021300- 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- 435 AM MDT (535 AM CDT) FRI JUL 1 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. WIDESPREAD SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...BUT A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE BLACK HILLS AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 8:07 AM MST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 907 AM MDT FRI JUL 1 2011 SDZ046-047-049-011600- MELLETTE SD-TODD SD-TRIPP SD- 1007 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN MELLETTE...EASTERN TODD AND TRIPP COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 AM CDT... AT 1002 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WITTEN TO 10 MILES EAST OF SPARKS...AND MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... WINNER... CLEARFIELD... MILLBORO... IDEAL... WEWELA... COLOME... HAMILL... SANDERS
Local storm report, Jul 1, 10:50 AM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1150 AM MDT FRI JUL 01 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1000 PM NON-TSTM WND DMG 7 N IDEAL 43.65N 99.92W
06/30/2011 TRIPP SD TRAINED SPOTTER
STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS--ESTIMATED 70 MPH--MOVED EMPTY
STOCK TANKS, BROKE SOME SMALL BRANCHES, AND STRIPPED SOME
ROOFING TIN FROM A BUILDING.
0330 PM TSTM WND DMG 15 E ARDMORE 43.02N 103.36W
06/30/2011 FALL RIVER SD TRAINED SPOTTER
ESTIMATED 60 MPH WINDS BLEW OVER A PROPANE TANK AND
DAMAGED AN OUTBUILDING.
&&
DBARBERLocal storm report, Jul 1, 11:28 AM MST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1228 PM MDT FRI JUL 01 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0840 PM TSTM WND GST 2 ESE OKREEK 43.37N 100.34W
06/30/2011 E60.00 MPH TODD SD TRAINED SPOTTER
BLEW SHINGLES OFF ROOF AND OVERTURNED SMALL STRUCTURE
0923 PM TSTM WND GST 5 N HAMILL 43.66N 99.64W
06/30/2011 E60.00 MPH TRIPP SD TRAINED SPOTTER
1000 PM TSTM WND DMG 7 N IDEAL 43.65N 99.92W
06/30/2011 TRIPP SD TRAINED SPOTTER
STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS--ESTIMATED 70 MPH--MOVED EMPTY
STOCK TANKS, BROKE SOME SMALL BRANCHES, AND STRIPPED SOME
ROOFING TIN FROM A BUILDING.
&&
DBARBERSpecial weather statement, Jul 1, 12:03 PM MST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 103 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2011 SDZ012-073-012030- BUTTE-SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS- 103 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2011 A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN REPORTED AROUND NISLAND AND VALE. ALTHOUGH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...MORE WEAK FUNNEL CLOUDS MAY DEVELOP...BUT ARE NOT LIKELY TO REACH THE GROUND.
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:31 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Texas, July 1 to 31, 2011
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, July 1, 2011
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, July 1, 2011
- Drought in Texas, July 1 to 31, 2011
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Minnesota, July 1, 2011
- Heat in Missouri, July 1 to 3, 2011
- Drought in Kansas, July 1 to 31, 2011
- Excessive Heat in Oklahoma, July 1, 2011
- Rip Current in Texas, July 1, 2011
- Wildfire in New Mexico, July 1 to 31, 2011
- Wildfire in Arizona, July 1 to 8, 2011
- Drought in Texas, July 1 to 31, 2011
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, July 2011
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: 329029.