Tornado and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 10, 2001

Name: Tornado and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 10, 2001
Start: 2001-06-10T00:03
End: 2001-06-10T00:35
Location: Minnesota

June 10, 2001 · NWS FSD · 5 events in 1 county or zone

4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 5

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 Jun 9, 8:20 PM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:20 PM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
920 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001

LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS NOW FILLING IN FM CNTRL DKTS TO CNTRL NE AND
NOW LOOKS LIKE MOST OF CWA WILL HAVE TSTMS LKLY MOVG EWD OVR CWA
AFTER MIDN. EARLIER UPDATED WITH NEW WATCH TO UP POPS TO AT LEAST
SCT OVR CWA...BUT WILL MONITOR FOR ANOTHER UPDATE TO UNQUALIFIED
POPS. OTRW PREV FCST IN THE BALLPARK. BIG QUESTION IS HOW MUCH OF
THE TSTMS WILL REMAIN SVR AFT MIDN...AND WILL KEEP THE MENTION OF
SVR MOST SD CWA EXCPT FAR SE...BUT WDLY SCT SVR FURTHER E NOT OUT
OF QUESTION AS SHORT WAVE INTERACTS WITH LOW LVL JET AND INSTABILITY.

.FSD...NONE
RYRHOLM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 11:35 PM CST, 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1235 AM CDT SUN JUN 10 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 387 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. HOWEVER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH NUMBER 390 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH
DAKOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOSWA UNTIL 4 AM CDT.

WB

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 11:55 PM CST, 8 minutes before

SDZ038-039-052>054-100700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1255 AM CDT SUN JUN 10 2001

STRONG LOW PRESSURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED
THROUGH THE REGION EARLIER IS CAUSING CONTINUED STRONG NON-
THUNDERSTORM WINDS...WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH. EVENTHOUGH THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NO LONGER IN THE REGION...YOU SHOULD
REMAIN ALERT FOR VERY STRONG WIND GUSTS THROUGH 2 AM. WINDS WILL
DIMINISH AS THE STORM SYSTEM MOVE EAST THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:03 UTC.

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Event by event

4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Lyon

When: June 10, 12:03 AM CST
Where: Lyon County, Minneota
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.567, -95.983

Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and moved cars.

Thunderstorm Wind, Lyon

When: June 10, 12:15 AM CST
Where: Lyon County, (Mml)ryan Fld Marsha
Measured: 62 kt (71 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 44.450, -95.817

Thunderstorm Wind, Lyon

When: June 10, 12:22 AM CST
Where: Lyon County, Marshall
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.450, -95.783

Thunderstorm winds blew down light poles.

Tornado, Lyon

When: June 10, 12:23 AM CST
Where: Lyon County, 5 mi W of Cottonwood
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 44.617, -95.767

A brief tornado caused no reported damage.

Thunderstorm Wind, Lyon

When: June 10, 12:35 AM CST
Where: Lyon County, Tracy
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 44.233, -95.617

Thunderstorm winds destroyed a store front.

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.
Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Minnesota in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Minnesota, 2001 Warnings in Minnesota, June 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: 5253416, 5253483, 5253484, 5253485, 5253486.