Name: Damaging Wind in Minnesota, April 7, 2001
Start: 2001-04-07T02:29
End: 2001-04-07T02:29
Location: Minnesota

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
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 FSD wrote it up.

Thunderstorm winds tore shingles off roofs and caused tree damage.

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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 6, 8:35 PM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 8:35 PM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
935 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001

EMERGENCE OF DRYING ALFT OVER MOIST LOW LVLS...COMBINED WITH
ASCENT FORCING OF LARGE SCALE UPPER LOW HAS RESULTED IN THE MAIN
EVENT ACROSS THE PLAINS...AS WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ERUPTED.
SFC WMFNT CONTINUES TO WORK GRADUALLY NWRD...CLOSE TO KADU...KTQE...
KOLU...KODX LINE.  ELEVATED PARCELS INDICATED BY LAPS/RAOBS DO HAVE
SMALL CAPES WITH HIGH MAX THERMAL DIFFERENCES. HOWEVER...WIND
PROFILES IN USEFUL AIRMASS ABV INVERSION ARE HIGHLY UNIDIRECTIONAL.
NEXT FEW HOURS WILL BE CRITICAL FOR ANY PSBL SVR STORMS. TRAJECTORY
OF BROAD PRECIP AREA SEEMS IN LINE WITH CURRENT AREA OF FFA...AND WL
KEEP CLOSE EYE ON AS FFG FOR THESE COUNTIES ARE ON ORDER OF 1 TO 1.5
IN 3H.  STILL LOOKING FOR SFC LOW TO MOVE JUST N AND W OF KFSD LT
TNGT AND DRAW WM AIR AT SFC.  NO CHG TO HILITE PACKAGES ATTM.

.FSD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TNGT AND ERY SAT    W OF JAMES RVR
       HIGH WIND WATCH   SATURDAY            MO RVR CORRIDOR
       HIGH WIND WATCH   LT SAT AM THRU AFTN SW MN INTO

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 6, 10:12 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1112 PM CDT FRI APR 06 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0921 PM    2 SE CARTHAGE             SD   .88 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   MINER                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0930 PM    10 SW DE SMET             SD   .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   KINGSBURY                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Apr 6, 10:23 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1123 PM CDT FRI APR 06 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    DIXON                     NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   DIXON                          REPORTED BY FIRE AND
                                          RESCUE.

0532 PM    1 N DIXON                 NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   DIXON                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0540 PM    DIXON                     NE   LIGHTNING
04/06/01   DIXON                          LIGHTNING CAUSED HOUSE
                                          FIRE. REPORTED BY FIRE
                                          AND RESCUE.

0545 PM    5 NE DIXON                NE   1.5 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   DIXON                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0550 PM    MARTINSBURG               NE   .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   DIXON                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0550 PM    3 W PONCA                 NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   DIXON                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0552 PM    3 S ELK PT                SD   .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   UNION                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0630 PM    4 E SIOUX RAPIDS          IA   HEAVY RAIN
04/06/01   BUENA VISTA                    .80 INCHES RAINFALL IN
                                          20 MINUTES. PONDING
                                          WATER IN SOME FIELDS.
                                          REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

0921 PM    2 SE CARTHAGE             SD   .88 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   MINER                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0930 PM    10 SW DE SMET             SD   .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01   KINGSBURY                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:28 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Nobles

When: April 7, 2:29 AM CST
Where: Nobles County, 4 mi NW of Adrian
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 43.667, -96.000

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

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: 5244426.