Thunderstorm Wind, Lake
- When
- August 8, 4:53 AM CST
- Where
- Lake County, Two Harbors
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 47.033, -91.683
Trees up to 10 inches in diameter were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 8, 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
- 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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 1:30 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:30 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 230 AM CDT WED AUG 8 2001 FORECAST CONCERNS ON MORNING CONVECTION...DAYTIME HEAT AND THEN CHANGE IN AIRMASS IN LATER PERIODS. MODELS OVERALL IN GENERAL AGREEMENT AND FOLLOWED WITH ETA/AVN BLEND. IR IMAGES SHOWING MCS HAVING GOOD STRUCTURE AS IT MOVES INTO NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. THICKNESS PACKING TAKES THIS COMPLEX SOUTHEAST THIS MORNING... AFFECTING MAINLY SOUTHWEST PORTION OF CWA. BOW NATURE OF THIS COMPLEX MAY KEEP IT A LITTLE FURTHER NORTH HOWEVER. BY MID MORNING CONVECTION DIMINISHES AS CAP BUILDS. HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL DOMINATE MUCH OF THE REGION. SURFACE FRONT BEGINS TO APPROACH THE AREA LATER IN THE DAY FOR THE CHANCE OF MORE CONVECTION...MAINLY NORTH. FRONT THEN MOVES SOUTHEAST TONIGHT. COOL AIR AT THE SURFACE A LITTLE OUT OF PHASE WITH UPPER LEVEL FEATURES...RESULTING IN LESSER AMOUNTS OF PRECIP. WILL KEEP BEST CHANCES ACROSS NORTHWEST AREAS. NORTHWEST WINDS THEN HELP TO SPREAD COOLER AND DRIER AIR SOUTHEASTWARD ON THURSDAY. WILL KEEP MORNING SHOWER CHANCES GOING FOR NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...BEFORE FRONT MOVES FURTHER SOUTH. NO MAJOR CHANCES MADE TO THE EXTENDED WITH COOLER NORTHWEST FLOW TO DOMINATE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. .DLH...NONE. TOMALAK
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 46 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:53 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
- Heat in New York, August 8 to 10, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, August 8, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, August 8, 2001
- Heat in North Carolina, August 8, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 8, 2001
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, August 8, 2001
- Heat in New York, August 8 to 9, 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: 5268946.