1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Jun 13, 7:55 PM CST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
855 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
NOT MUCH TIME FOR DISCUSSION DUE TO ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER IN
EASTERN CWA. MAIN SURFACE BOUNDARY JUST EAST OF SOUTH DAKOTA
BORDER...WITH OUTFLOW ON REAR SIDE OF STORMS CAUSING TSRA TO
REDEVELOP ALONG I-29 CORRIDOR. HAVE ALREADY MADE SEVERAL UPDATES
TO ZONES TO COVER CHANGES IN TORNADO AND FLASH FLOOD WATCHES.
.FSD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH LATE TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT FOR THE
JAMES VALLEY TOWARD THE MO VALLEY.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
414 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0402 PM 8 NE BRUCE SD .88 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 BROOKINGS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
633 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0624 PM DAKOTA CITY NE 1 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 DAKOTA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0627 PM SIOUX CITY IA .88 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 WOODBURY REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0627 PM SOUTH SIOUX CITY NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 DAKOTA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.SDZ038>040-050-052>069-140100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 730 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 415 CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO SOUTWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
919 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0708 PM 15 E BROOKINGS SD TORNADO
06/13/01 BROOKINGS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0719 PM 3 NE LAKE BENTON MN TORNADO
06/13/01 LINCOLN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0719 PM 3 NE LAKE BENTON MN TORNADO
06/13/01 LINCOLN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0731 PM 3 W ROCK VLY IA .88 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 SIOUX REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0731 PM 3 W ROCK VLY IA .88 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 SIOUX REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0800 PM SIOUX CITY ARPT IA 67 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/01 WOODBURY OFFICIAL WIND EQUIPMENTThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado downed trees in Calumet and Sutherland, some of which caused severe damage to homes. The tornado also blew chimneys off at least two houses, caused other tree damage, knocked down power lines, and destroyed the concession stand at a softball field.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 2001Warnings in Iowa, June 2001
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: 5253621.