Name: Flash Flood in Minnesota, April 7, 2001
Start: 2001-04-07T08:45
End: 2001-04-07T08:45
Location: Minnesota

Where it happened

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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 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, 3:00 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 3:00 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before

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.

NG

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 146 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:44 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Wilkin

When: April 7, 8:45 AM CST
Where: Wilkin County, Breckenridge
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 46.357, -96.468 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Basement flooding was reported.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5251053.