2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 7, 3:00 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND...CORRECTED
400 AM CDT SAT APR 7 2001
FORECAST CHALLENGE IS PCPN. CURRENT SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS
COLDEST IR TOPS OVER S CWFA AND PROGRESSING NORTHWARD. KMVX HAS BAND
OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED TSRA WORKING N AS WELL...WITH OVER 1/2 OF CWFA
NOW WITH PCPN. LATEST MSAS SFC PRESSURE ANALYSIS HAS LOW CENTERED IN
E NE WITH WARM FRONT EXTENDING INTO S MN. WHEN COMPARING
INITIALIZATION CONDITIONS TO MODELS...ETA BEST MATCH. LOW CONTINUES
NE TRACK THROUGH S AND CENTRAL MN INTO W LK SUPERIOR BY 00Z SUN.
PRESSURE SYSTEM. BEST Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE REMAINS ALONG AND N OF
TRACK OF LOW...COVERING MUCH OF CWFA THROUGH THE DAY. HOWEVER...BEST
POTENTIAL FOR -TSRA REMAINS IN S CWFA FOR EARLY TODAY...PROVIDING S
CWFA WITH POTENTIAL FOR 1.0 TO 1.5 INCHES OF PCPN. N CWFA WILL SEE
LONGER PERIOD OF LIGHTER PCPN...WITH POTENTIAL FOR AROUND 1.0 INCH
OF PCPN. WITH GROUND EITHER FROZEN OR SATURATED AND FFG IN THE ONE
INCH RANGE...WILL KEEP FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING FOR TODAY. THANKS TO
HPC FOR COORD. ALSO...WILL KEEP AND EXPAND WIND ADVISORY TO ALL OF
CWFA EXPECT FAR E MN COUNTIES...WHICH SHOULD HOLD BELOW ADVISORY
CRITERIA DUE TO GREATER NUMBER OF TREES.
LOW CONTINUES MOVING NE FOR TONIGHT...WITH BEST Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE
OVER N MN SIDE OF CWFA. HOWEVER...CONSIDERING REST OF CWFA ALSO
STILL UNDER CYCLONIC WRAP-AROUND FLOW...ANTICIPATE CONTINUED
POTENTIAL FOR AREAS OF RAIN...MIXING WITH SNOW AT TIMES. QPF VALUES
DROP TO AROUND 0.25 INCH...SO WILL NOT EXPAND FFA INTO TONIGHT AT
THIS TIME. FOR SUN AND SUN NIGHT...CYCLONIC FLOW ERODES...WITH FLOW
GOING N AS COLD FRONT PUSHES INTO REGION AHEAD OF HIGH PRESSURE
RIDGE. THEREFORE...CHC POPS FOR -SHRA OR -SHSN STILL LOOK GOOD.
STILL HAVE GOOD CONTINUITY WITH EXTENDED...SO MADE NO CHANGES.
.FGF...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR RRV IN ND AND ALL MN COUNTIES TODAY.
WIND ADVISORY TODAY FULL CWFA...EXCEPT LAKE OF WOODS...
BELTRAMI...CLEARWATER...HUBBARD AND WADENA COUNTIES.
NGThe Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 175 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:44 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
1.50 inches of rain fell around the Fergus Falls area, flooding some rural roads. Most of the rain ended up as runoff, as the ground was still saturated from the spring snowmelt.
1.50 to 2 inches of rain fell across the Wadena area, flooding some rural roads. Most of the rain ended up as runoff, as the ground was still saturated from the spring snowmelt.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, April 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: 5238876, 5238877.