Name: Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 8, 2001
Start: 2001-08-08T15:33
End: 2001-08-08T15:33
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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 1:50 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:50 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
250 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2001

FORECAST FOCUS WILL BE CONVECTION TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING.

MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT AND FOLLOWED THE ETA FOR MOST OF DETAILS.

SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM SOUTHEAST NORTH
DAKOTA TOWARD THE ARROWHEAD. CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
OCCURRING ATTM IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/WESTERN MINNESOTA NEAR THIS
FEATURE. COLD FRONT FURTHER WEST. 850MB/SURFACE COLD FRONTS SLOW AS
THEY MOVE INTO MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. 700MB TEMPS BEGIN TO COOL
AND DROP BELOW 10C BY 06Z. 100KT JET MAX ALSO CRUISES THROUGH
CENTRAL/SOUTHERN CANADIAN PROVINCES AND WILL CREATE ADDED
DIVERGENCE. COMBO OF CONVERGENCE WITH LOWER LEVEL COLD FRONT AND
UPPER DIVERGENCE WILL BE ENOUGH LIFT AS CAP ERODES LATER THIS
EVENING. DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 60S TO MID 70S REMAIN OVER MOST OF
CWA SO LOW LEVELS REMAIN QUITE MOIST. 0-6KM SHEAR OF 25-30KTS
INCREASES TO 30-40KTS BY 06Z. SEVERE STORM POTENTIAL CONTINUES...AND
WILL INCREASE LATER THIS EVENING AS ABOVE MENTIONED FEATURES
DEVELOP/MOVE CLOSER TO CWA.

COLD FRONT THEN MOVES THROUGH CWA THURSDAY MORNING...WITH DECENT
COLD AIR ADVECTION BRINGING RELIEF FROM THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY. GUSTY
WIND TO DEVELOP FROM THE NORTHWEST DURING THE DAY WITH 35 KNOTS AT
850MB. AFTER SOME MORNING CLOUDS...PARTIAL CLEARING TO DEVELOP. THERE
MAY BE MORE CLOUDS FAR NORTH.

FOLLOWED GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES...BUT INCREASED SOME TOMORROW.

.DLH...NONE.

MELDE

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:35 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Aitkin

When: August 8, 3:33 PM CST
Where: Aitkin County, Hill City
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 46.983, -93.583

Many trees were blown down.

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

Every storm in Minnesota in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5268953.