Thunderstorm Wind, Crook
- When
- July 19, 7:15 PM MST
- Where
- Crook County, 10 mi NNE of New Haven
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 44.884, -104.752
Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 19, 2011
A severe thunderstorm produced 60 mph wind gusts north of New Haven.
Where it happened
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- 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.
A severe thunderstorm produced 60 mph wind gusts north of New Haven.
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 19, 1:13 PM MST, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 1:13 PM MST, 6 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
213 PM MDT TUE JUL 19 2011
.DISCUSSION...WATER VAPOR SHOWS PERSISTENT UPPER RIDGE OVER THE
CNTRL/NRN PLAINS WITH MONSOONAL PLUME EXTENDING ALONG THE SPINE OF
THE SRN/CNTRL ROCKIES NEWD THROUGH THE NRN PLAINS. SURFACE ANALYSIS
SHOWS WEAK TROF EXTENDING FROM NCNTRL MT THROUGH NCNTRL SD.
TONIGHT...ISOLD/SCT TSTMS WILL ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP WITHIN THE
MONSOONAL PLUME AND AFFECT NERN WY AND NWRN SD. SEVERE PARAMETERS
NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE SO OVERALL THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS IS SMALL.
TEMPS WILL REMAIN QUITE WARM...WITH LOWS NEAR 80 IN PARTS OF OUR ERN
ZONES.
WEDNESDAY...AN UPPER LEVEL TROF CURRENTLY OVER THE PAC NW WILL RACE
EWD THROUGH THE NRN ROCKIES AND INTO THE NRN PLAINS. THIS WILL DRIVE
A COLD FRONT THROUGH OUR WRN ZONES IN THE MORNING AND THROUGH OUR
ERN ZONES BY AFTERNOON. WILL END THE EXTREME HEAT WARNING ACROSS
NWRN SD AT 12Z WEDNESDAY BUT KEEP GOING FOR SCNTRL SD THROUGH THE
DAY...ALTHOUGH THE WARNING MIGHT NEED TO BE CANCELLED EARLIER. WINDS
WILL BE QUITE GUSTY BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...ESPECIALLY OVER NWRN SD
SO WILL GO AHEAD AND ISSUE A WIND ADVISORY THAT AREA DURING THE DAY.
WINDS WILL QUICKLY DECREASE IN THE EVENING WITH HIGH PRESSURE
BUILDING INTO WRN SD.
THURSDAY...MODELS SHOW THE MONSOONAL PLUME SHIFTED TO OUR SOUTH/EAST
WITH IMPRESSIVE DRY SLOT EXTENDING FROM THE DESERT SW NEWD INTO THE
NRN PLAINS. THIS SHOULD PUT A LID ON ANY PCPN CHANCES. TEMPS WILL BE
NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE.
EXTENDED...WEST-SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT EARLY IN THE PERIOD WILL BRING
A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS FRIDAY. RIDGE WILL THEN BUILD BACK
OVER THE ROCKIES AND PLAINS FOR THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT
WEEK...BRINGING MAINLY DRY WEATHER SATURDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK.
TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE...WITH HIGHS
MOSTLY IN THE MID 80S TO MID 90S.
&&
.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS CAN GENERALLY BE EXPECTED TONIGHT INTO
WEDNESDAY MORNING. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN
WY...THE BLACK HILLS...AND NORTHWESTERN SD THIS EVENING.
&&
.UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 6 PM MDT /7 PM CDT/ WEDNESDAY FOR
BENNETT-JACKSON-MELLETTE-TODD-TRIPP.
EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 6 AM MDT WEDNESDAY FOR HAAKON-
NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PERKINS-ZIEBACH.
WIND ADVISORY FROM 6 AM TO 6 PM MDT WEDNESDAY FOR BUTTE-HAAKON-
HARDING-NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-
PERKINS-RAPID CITY-SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-
STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-ZIEBACH.
WY...NONE.
&&
JOHNSON/CALDERONHazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 1:49 PM MST, 5 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 249 PM MDT TUE JUL 19 2011 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-201300- 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- 249 PM MDT (349 PM CDT) TUE JUL 19 2011 ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THROUGH WEDNESDAY... ...WIND ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE HEAT INDEX WILL RANGE FROM 100 TO 113 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST INTO SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A COOL FRONT WILL BRING GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS TO 45 MPH ACROSS NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA ON WEDNESDAY. THE HEAT INDEX WILL REACH NEAR 100 DEGREES IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE THE COOL FRONT ARRIVES LATER IN THE DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 174 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:16 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, July 19, 2011
- Excessive Heat in Missouri, July 19 to 24, 2011
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, July 19, 2011
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, July 19, 2011
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, July 19, 2011
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, July 19, 2011
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 19, 2011
- Excessive Heat and Heat in Kentucky, July 19 to 24, 2011
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 19, 2011
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in New Jersey, July 19, 2011
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, July 19, 2011
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Texas, July 19, 2011
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, 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: 313964.