Flash Flood, Wilkin
- When
- April 7, 2:30 AM CST
- Where
- Wilkin County, Doran
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 46.357, -96.468 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Minnesota, April 7, 2001
Heavy rainfall contributed to some basement flooding in Doran.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
Heavy rainfall contributed to some basement flooding in Doran.
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 7, 2:15 AM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 2:15 AM CST, 15 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
315 AM CDT SAT APR 7 2001
AFD DELAYED. WILL ISSUE BY 400 AM.
.FGF...FLASH -FLOOD WATCH FOR RRV IN ND AND ALL MN COUNTIES TODAY.
WIND ADVISORY TODAY ALL ND COUNTIES AND ADJOINING RRV
COUNTIES IN MN.
NGThe radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 146 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:29 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Weather in California, April 7 to 10, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Utah, April 7 to 9, 2001
- High Wind in Iowa, April 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in California, April 7, 2001
- High Wind in Illinois, April 7, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, April 7 to 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, April 7 to 8, 2001
- High Wind in Minnesota, April 7, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, April 7 to 26, 2001
- Flood in Minnesota, April 7 to 26, 2001
- High Wind in Iowa, April 7, 2001
- Flooding in South Dakota, April 7 to 8, 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: 5238761.