High Wind, Northern Campbell
- When
- January 13, 4:00 PM MST to 7:00 PM MST
- Where
- Northern Campbell forecast zone
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 44.248, -105.548 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Wyoming, January 13, 2014
Strong winds developed for a short time behind a cold front that crossed the region. Wind gusts around 60 mph were recorded across northern Campbell County.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- 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.
Strong winds developed for a short time behind a cold front that crossed the region. Wind gusts around 60 mph were recorded across northern Campbell County.
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 Jan 13, 2:30 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 2:30 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
230 PM MST MON JAN 13 2014
.SHORT TERM...THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT
ISSUED AT 201 PM MST MON JAN 13 2014
WATER VAPOR SHOWS LARGE UPPER TROF OVER THE CNTRL CONUS WITH SHORT
WAVE ENERGY EXTENDING FROM SRN ALTA/SASK INTO THE NRN PLAINS. AT
THE SURFACE...BROAD LOW COVERS NERN MT/NWRN ND/SRN SASK...WITH
SURFACE TROF EXTENDING THROUGH THE CNTRL DAKOTAS AND CDFNT
EXTENDING THROUGH NRN MT. UPSLOPE SNOWS CONTINUE IN THE NRN/CNTRL
BLKHLS WITH -SHRA ON THE PLAINS OF NERN WY AND FAR WRN SD. WINDS
ARE BECOMING GUSTY ACRS FAR NWRN SD.
TONIGHT...UPSLOPE SNOWS WILL CONTINUE IN THE NRN/CNTRL
BLKHLS...AND SHOULD INCREASE IN INTENSITY THIS EVE AS CDFNT BLASTS
THROUGH THE CWFA. WINDS SHOULD ALSO INCREASE RATHER SIGNIFICANTLY
ACRS THE ENTIRE AREA AS ROBUST COLD ADVECTION AND PRES RISES OF
4-7MB/3HR CROSS THE CWFA...WITH WINDS GUSTING TO 60MPH ACROSS NWRN
SD...AND 50MPH ACRS THE REST OF THE CWFA SO WILL KEEP THE WIND
HIGHLIGHTS GOING. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS AROUND A FOOT STILL A GOOD
POSSIBILITY IN THE FOUR CORNERS TO CHEYENNE CROSSING TO THE
DEERFIELD AREA...WITH THE WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINING IN PLACE.
SNOW SHOULD DEVELOP/INCREASE OVER NERN WY AS WELL BEHIND THE
CDFNT...WITH EVEN A COUPLE INCHES COMBINED WITH 50MPH WINDS
RESULTING IN POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS...SO WILL KEEP THE WINTER WX
ADVISORY GOING THAT AREA.
TUESDAY...UPSLOPE SNOWS SHOULD DECREASE BY LATE MORNING...ALTHOUGH
SCT -SHSN WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH THE DAY WITH STEEP LAPSE
RATES IN PLACE. CURRENT WINTER STORM WARNING GOES THROUGH TUE
AFTN...BUT EXPECT WE WILL BE ABLE TO CANCEL THIS A BIT EARLIER.
WINDS MAY STILL REMAIN AN ISSUE...SO A WIND ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED
THROUGH THE DAY FOR THE SD PLAINS BUT WILL LET THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT
SORT THIS OUT.
&&
.LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY
ISSUED AT 201 PM MST MON JAN 13 2014
QUIET WEATHER WITH MILD TEMPS EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY AS
WEAK TRANSIENT RIDGE PASSES OVER. CLIPPER SYSTEM SLIDES THROUGH THE
NORTHERN PLAINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. NOT MUCH MOISTURE
WITH THIS SYSTEM...BUT WITH STRONG UPSLOPE ENHANCEMENT OVER THE NRN
BLKHLS...SOME LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE. GREATEST CONCERN WILL BE
VERY STRONG NWRLY WINDS ON THURSDAY AS MODELS HAVE BEEN RATHER
CONSISTENT WITH SHOWING A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE
SOUTH DAKOTA PLAINS. UPPER RIDGE OVER THE WEST COAST WILL START TO
SLOWLY PUSH TOWARDS THE EAST FOR FRIDAY INTO THE
WEEKEND...BRINGING DRY CONDITIONS.
&&
.AVIATION...FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z TUESDAY EVENING
ISSUED AT 201 PM MST MON JAN 13 2014
GUSTY WRLY WINDS WILL SHIFT NWRLY AND INCREASE EARLY
THIS EVENING AS A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. THE GUSTY WINDS
WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT. SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE
BLKHLS OVERNIGHT WITH SNOW DEVELOPING ACROSS NERN WY BY EARLY
EVENING...BRINGING WIDESPREAD IFR/LIFR VIS WITH BLSN THROUGH MUCH OF
THE NIGHT. SOME SNOW MAY ALSO DEVELOP OVER PTNS OF THE SD PLAINS
LATER TONIGHT...BRINGING AREAS OF IFR VIS IN -SN AND BLSN.
&&
.UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 5 PM MST TUESDAY FOR SDZ024-028.
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 5 AM MST /6 AM CST/ TUESDAY FOR SDZ014-027-
030-032-041>044-046-047-049-074.
HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 5 AM MST TUESDAY FOR SDZ001-002-012-013-
025-026-031-072-073.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 5 AM MST TUESDAY FOR SDZ029.
WY...WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 5 PM MST TUESDAY FOR WYZ057.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 AM MST
TUESDAY FOR WYZ054>056-058-071.
&&
SHORT TERM...JOHNSON
LONG TERM...15
AVIATION...15Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 2:26 PM MST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 226 PM MST MON JAN 13 2014 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-141400- 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- 226 PM MST (326 PM CST) MON JAN 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE FOUND ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE FOUND ACROSS THE PLAINS OF NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA...FROM BUFFALO TO RAPID CITY. ELSEWHERE WIND GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE BEAR LODGE MOUNTAINS AND NORTHERN BLACK HILLS...WITH ACCUMULATIONS AROUND A FOOT EXPECTED FROM FOUR CORNERS TO CHEYENNE CROSSING AND DEERFIELD. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTHEAST WYOMING INTO THE SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS. THE COMBINATION OF SNOW AND STRONG WINDS WILL RESULT IN BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WITH VERY POOR VISIBILITIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE BEAR LODGE MOUNTAINS AND NORTHERN BLACK HILLS INTO TUESDAY MORNING BEFORE DIMINISHING. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH... ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES... OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/RAPIDCITY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 13, 2:39 PM MST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
239 PM MST MON JAN 13 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0228 PM SNOW 4 NNW NEMO 44.25N 103.53W
01/13/2014 E2.0 INCH LAWRENCE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
0229 PM HEAVY SNOW 1 W O'NEIL PASS 44.20N 104.03W
01/13/2014 E6.0 INCH LAWRENCE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
0235 PM HEAVY SNOW 1 SSE DEERFIELD RESERVO 44.00N 103.79W
01/13/2014 E8.0 INCH PENNINGTON SD TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
MELocal storm report, Jan 13, 2:43 PM MST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
243 PM MST MON JAN 13 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0243 PM SNOW JEWEL CAVE 43.73N 103.83W
01/13/2014 E3.0 INCH CUSTER SD TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
METhe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Cold in Illinois, January 13, 2014
- Avalanche and Heavy Snow in Montana, January 13 to 18, 2014
- High Wind in South Dakota, January 13, 2014
- High Wind and Strong Wind in California, January 13 to 15, 2014
- Winter Storm and High Wind in Alaska, January 13 to 15, 2014
- High Wind in North Dakota, January 13, 2014
- High Wind in California, January 13 to 15, 2014
- Winter Storm in Montana, January 13 to 14, 2014
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, January 13 to 14, 2014
- Flooding in Indiana, January 13 to 20, 2014
- Wildfire in California, January 13 to 31, 2014
- Marine Thunderstorm Wind in Gulf of Mexico, January 13, 2014
More
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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: 487054.