Thunderstorm Wind — Mcpherson, South Dakota

2024-05-17 · near Hillsview, Mcpherson, South Dakota

Event narrative

The public relayed through Facebook that they estimated the thunderstorm wind gusts at around 60 mph.

Wider weather episode

A cold front moving northwest to southeast helped support strong to severe storms that mainly generated high winds, with a peak wind gust of 90 mph at the Grand River Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS) situated 11 miles south of the community of Bullhead. Additional wind gust resulted in damage to grain bins and power poles 2 miles north northwest of, and 3 miles northwest of Sand Lake Wildlife Refuge respectively. Shingle damage was reported at a residence 2 miles east of Eureka and thunderstorm winds also resulted in local brownout conditions 8 miles east northeast of Frederick.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1169134. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.