Minnesota, 2001

Flash Flood in Minnesota, July 24, 2001

July 24, 2001 · NWS FSD · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 24, 9:15 AM CST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 9:15 AM CST, 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1015 AM CDT WED JUL 24 2001

BONAFIDE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACCOMPANYING MCS ACRS SERN SD...XTRM NW
IA...AND SW MN THIS MORNING. THUSFAR...STILL WORKING TO BUILD THE
NEW DAILY RAINFALL RECORD AT FSD /THRU 10AM...2.14 INCHES/.  ACTIVITY
IS MAINLY ALG AND N OF STAGNANT LOW LVL BOUNDARY ACRS ERN NEBR AND
NW IA...WITH LTST STLT TREND SHOTING REDEVLOPMENT ON SRN FLANK...WITH
ADDITIONAL LARGE STRATIFORM AREA IN WAKE.  FBY PROF INDICATING MORE
THAN FAIR LOW LVL FEED...SO EXPECT CONTINUED TREND FOR REDEVELOPMENT
ON SRN FLANK OF MCS THRU AFTN...WITH FOCUS SHIFTING TO NW IA AND SW
MN...ALONG WITH WK MID LVL TROUGH.  SEVERE THREAT WOULD ALSO BE
MINIMAL WITH EXTEND OF STABILIZATION...AND LESS THAN STRONG WND
SHEAR. LCLY HVY RAINFALL IS ONLY REMOTE THREAT.

TECH NOTES...KFSD RADAR IS STILL OTM UFN.  ALSO FOR GOES STLT "
ENTHUSIASTS...SIGNIFICANT DEGREE OF PARALLAX OCCURRING WITH
RADAR/LIGHTNING DATA DISPLACED ABOUT 20NM TO SOUTH OF STLT COLDEST
TOPS.

.FSD...NONE
CHAPMAN

The radar

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Nobles

When
July 24, 9:30 AM CST to 11:00 AM CST
Where
Nobles County, 2 mi W of Kinbrae
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
43.674, -95.753 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy rainfall caused flooding of gravel roads near East Graham Lake, closing the roads.

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.

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

The same day elsewhere

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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: 5261238.