Thunderstorm Wind, Kittson
- When
- August 21, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Kittson County, 5 mi NE of Orleans
- Property damage
- $500
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.983, -96.850
Branches were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 21, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $500
- 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 Aug 21, 7:20 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 7:20 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 820 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 2001 .CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW... 00Z MSAS ANALYSIS DEPICTED RATHER DIFFUSE AND BENIGN PRESSURE PATTERN OVER REGION WITH LOW PRESSURE OVER CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND ASSOCIATED INVERTED TROUGH AXIS NORTH INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LATEST RADAR MOSAIC INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FIRING IN HIGHLY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT FROM JUST WEST OF LANGDON TO SOUTHEAST OF MINOT. .FORECAST DETAILS... EXPECT ACTIVITY TO WEAKEN AFTER DARK CHECK SPC MESOSCALE DISCUSSION FOR FURTHER DETAILS. WILL UPDATE ZONES BY LATE EVENING TO ADDRESS CONVECTIVE TRENDS...OTHERWISE NO MAJOR REVISIONS PLANNED. .FGF...NONE. BERG
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 21, 8:00 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
900 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM 13 E HANSBORO ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/21/01 TOWNER GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
0820 PM 14 SE HANSBORO ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/21/01 TOWNER GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL
0830 PM 2 NW CALVIN ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/21/01 CAVALIER PENNY SIZED HAIL
NNNNThe radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 166 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:17 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heavy Rain in Washington, August 21 to 23, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, August 21 to 22, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Utah, August 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 21, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, August 21 to 22, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, August 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 21, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, August 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, August 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: 5265328.