Flood, Grant
- When
- April 5, 12:00 AM CST to April 26, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Grant forecast zone
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 45.934, -96.012 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Minnesota, April 5 to 26, 2001
Overland flooding from the spring snowmelt closed numerous roads in Grant county. Several homes in Herman and Barrett reported basement flooding.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $500,000
- 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 FGF wrote it up.
Overland flooding from the spring snowmelt closed numerous roads in Grant county. Several homes in Herman and Barrett reported basement flooding.
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 4, 8:00 PM CST, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 8:00 PM CST, 4 hours before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 900 PM CDT WED APR 4 2001 WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWING UPR RIDGE AXIS OVR CO/WY AND ANOTHER OVR LS. A CIRC HAS SPUN UP OVR THE SRN ALTA/SASK BDR. MODEL HAD A WV AT 700 HPA OVR THE RED RVR VLY WITH PRECIP OCCURRING E OF THE TROF AXIS. PLENTY OF LOW CLDS/FOG OVR ERN ND MOVG E. MODEL CROSS SECTION HAS MID LVL DRYING BTWN 850 AND 700 HPA WITH PLENTY OF MSTR REMAINING ABV AND BLO THIS LYR. FEW RETURNS ON 88D IN ERN COUNTIES AND SHOULD MOV OUT ARND MIDN. LGT W SFC WNDS WL MOV INTO WRN COUNTIES BY MORN. WL CHECK ZONES. .FGF...NONE. HOPPES
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, April 5, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, April 5 to 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, April 5, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, April 5, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Iowa, April 5, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Illinois, April 5, 2001
- Hail in California, April 5, 2001
- Blizzard in Alaska, April 5 to 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 5, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, April 5, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, April 5 to 6, 2001
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, April 2001
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: 5238755.