Minnesota, 2001Flash Flood in Minnesota, June 12 to 13, 2001
June 12 to 13, 2001 · NWS FSD · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- 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 Jun 12, 2:55 PM CST, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:55 PM CST, 6 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
355 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001
FAIRLY STRONG MID LVL SHORTWV MOVG THRU CWA ATTM...INTERACTING WITH
POTENT WMFNT WHICH HAS MOVED NWD TOWARD SIOUX CITY. THIS WMFNT WL
CONT TO LIFT NWD AS THE NIGHT PROGESSES...MAINLY OVR THE ERN HALF OF
THE CWA...AND SOME OVERNIGHT LOWS OVER THE EAST MAY NOT BE MUCH
COLDER THAN THEIR CRNT READINGS RIGHT NOW. AS FAR AS CONVECTION
CHANCES...AM WONDERING WHAT MAY OR MAY NOT DVLP BEHIND THE CRNT LINE
OF CONVECTION MOVG THRU THE I 90 CORRIDOR. SO FAR...NO ECHOES TO
REPORT ON THE KOAX AND KLNX 88D'S...AND IN FACT CONDITIONS HAVE
CLOUDED UP AGAIN IN NE NEB. CRNT THOUGHTS NOW...ARE THAT EVENING
CONVECTION MAY HAVE TROUBLE BREAKING ALONG THE WMFNT DUE TO A LACK
OF MID LVL SUPPORT TO KICK IT OFF...HOWEVER OF COURSE...THIS IS VERY
TRICKY. CAP STRENGHTENS OVR MUCH OF THE CWA VERY LATE TNGT...AS
700MB LVL DRAMATICALLY WM'S AHD OF CDFNT TO THE WEST.
THEREFORE...NOT REAL CONFIDENT THAT THE WRN HIGH PLAINS CONVECTION
WL MOVE MUCH FURTHER EAST THAN THE JAMES VALLEY OR THE FAR NRN TIER
OF CWA...AS IT LIFTS E TO NEWD WITH THE MID LVL FLOW AND OVER THE
CAP. SO THEREFORE WORDED THE ZONES ACCORDINGLY.
CDFNT MOVES INTO CWA ON WEDNESDAY...AND USED THE AVN/ETA SOLN FOR
TIMING. STRONG CAP EXISTS AHD OF THE BNDRY...SO PCPN LOOKS TO BE
RIGHT ALONG AND BEHIND THE FNT. COULD ACTUALLY GET QUITE WM IN THE
ERN HALF...WITH STOUT SRLY WINDS AND PARTLY SUNNY SKIES. THIS IS THE
AREA TO BE MOST CONCERNED ABOUT FOR SVR CHCS...FM ARND YANKTON TO
JACKSON MN. JAMES VALLEY MAY NOT GET MUCH OUT OF THE FRONTAL BNDRY
AS THEY ARE TOO FAR BEHIND THE CONVERGENT ZONE. AS THE CAPPING
BREAKS ALONG THE BNDRY...CONVECTION SHOULD FIRE LATE IN THE DAY AND
THRU THE NIGHT IN THE EAST.
THURSDAY LOOKS MUCH COOLER AND SHOWERY OVER MANY LOCATIONS...WRAP
ARND BEHIND THE SYSTEM. STILL A SMALL SHORTWV PROGGED ON SUNDAY...
BUT AGREE WITH THE PMDEPD THAT THE MRF HGTS LOOK ONCE AGAIN
OVERDONE...SO TRENDED THE TEMPS CLOSER TO NORMAL.
.FSD...NONE
FUHS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 12, 4:14 PM CST, 4 hours 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
514 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0428 PM OCHEYEDAN IA .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 OSCEOLA REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0433 PM RUSHMORE MN 1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 NOBLES REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0505 PM 1 N LUVERNE MN 1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 ROCK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Flash Flood, Nobles
- When
- June 12, 9:00 PM CST to June 13, 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- Nobles County, Worthington
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.674, -95.753 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash flooding resulting from very heavy rain flooded streets, small streams, culverts, and other low places. Some flooding of basements also occurred.
- 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.
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 12, 2001$12 million · F0 · 56 events
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, June 12, 2001$20 million · F0 · 27 events
- Flooding in Iowa, June 12 to 23, 2001$2.5 million · 33 events
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, June 12, 20012 injured · $1.2 million · F0 · 15 events
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, June 12 to 13, 2001$5.0 million · 1 event
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, June 12 to 13, 2001$4.0 million · 2.5 in hail · 3 events
- Hail in Minnesota, June 12, 2001$2.0 million · 1.75 in hail · 2 events
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Utah, June 12, 20011 injured · $1.2 million · 73 kt wind · 5 events
- Hail in Iowa, June 12, 2001$1.5 million · 2.75 in hail · 5 events
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 12, 20011 injured · $106,000 · 61 kt wind · 45 events
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Michigan, June 12, 2001$802,000 · 10 events
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Georgia, June 12 to 13, 2001$633,000 · 9 events
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: 5252559.