Minnesota, 2024Heat in Minnesota, July 31, 2024
July 31, 2024 · NWS FSD · 2 events in 2 counties and zones
Pooling moisture ahead of a frontal boundary pushed dew point readings into the upper 70s and lower 80s, and temperatures in the upper 80s to lower 90s produced heat index values from 100 to 105 degrees.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Pooling moisture ahead of a frontal boundary pushed dew point readings into the upper 70s and lower 80s, and temperatures in the upper 80s to lower 90s produced heat index values from 100 to 105 degrees.
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 Jul 31, 10:37 AM CST, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 10:37 AM CST, 23 minutes before
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- When
- July 31, 11:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rock forecast zone
- Reported by
- Department of Highways
- Coordinates
- 43.675, -96.253 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat index values reached 104 degrees in Luverne and 101 degrees near Beaver Creek.
Heat, Lyon
- When
- July 31, 11:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lyon forecast zone
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 44.414, -95.839 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat index values reached 104 degrees in Marshall.
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in South Dakota, July 31, 20242 deaths · 2 in hail · 21 events
- Heat in Arizona, July 31, 20241 death · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 31, 2024$7.8 million · 4 in hail · 12 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 31, 2024$1.1 million · 1.75 in hail · 13 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, July 31, 2024$403,000 · 1.75 in hail · 13 events
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 31, 2024$286,000 · 61 kt wind · 15 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 31, 20241.25 in hail · 43 events
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Iowa, July 31, 20241.25 in hail · 40 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 31, 20246 in hail · 37 events
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 31, 2024$20,000 · 55 kt wind · 21 events
- Damaging Winds in District of Columbia, July 31, 2024$26,000 · 56 kt wind · 5 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 31, 20241.25 in hail · 23 events
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1206150, 1206151.