Minnesota

Storms in Minnesota in 2001

1,924 events in 346 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Minnesota in 2001, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Minnesota in 2001 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The year

Events
1,924
Deaths
14
Injuries
41
Damage
$419 million
Episodes
346

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail620025$9.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind40200$1.1 million
Winter Storm22600$650,000
Heat162110
Heavy Snow9400
Flood8931$224 million
Tornado79013$152 million
Flash Flood7600$19 million
High Wind4300$8.2 million
Dense Fog4200
Blizzard3500
Ice Storm2300$4.2 million
Funnel Cloud1900
Lightning1302$134,000
Heavy Rain100

Every episode, month by month

January 2001

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March 2001

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May 2001

June 2001

July 2001

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September 2001

October 2001

November 2001

December 2001

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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.