1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 3:00 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 400 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 TWO MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS ARE EVIDENT OVER SOUTH DAKOTA/MINNESOTA WITH EVIDENCE OF MERGER OVER THE LAST HOUR OF IMAGERY. ACTIVE LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL AREA IS JUST NORTH OF CONVECTIVE CAP AREA WHERE ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE REACHES A MAXIMUM. WILL CONTINUE EARLIER FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9 AM AND LET DAYSHIFT TAKE A LOOK AT CYONVECTIVE SITUATION LATER THIS MORNING. BUSY SHIFT...END OF DISCUSSION. .MSP...NONE. WET
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
203 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 PM CEYLON MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 MARTIN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1200 AM ELMORE MN .88 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 FARIBAULT REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1205 AM CEYLON MN WIND DAMAGE
06/13/01 MARTIN TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1230 AM WALTERS MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 FARIBAULT REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEME.NT OFFICIAL.MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-131630- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 400 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 ...SEVERE WEATHER THREAT MAINLY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND PART OF WESTERN WISCONSIN LATE TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN TODAY INTO TONIGHT. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE SLIGHT RISK ARE THE TWIN CITIES...ST. CLOUD...ALEXANDRIA...MANKATO...REDWOOD FALLS... WILLMAR...RICE LAKE AND EAU CLAIRE WISCONSIN. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE EARLY THIS MORNING OVER THE AREA...AND THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE SEVERAL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH LATER THIS MORNING...BUT MORE ARE LIKELY TO REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS WESTERN MINNESOTA AND SWEEP ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...ISOLATED TORNADOES CAN NOT BE RULED OUT THIS AFTERNOON IN WESTERN MINNESOTA. THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS MORNING...AND AGAIN LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. MBK
MNZ082-083-091-092-131100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 518 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 414 THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR A PART OF SOUTH ? CENTRAL MINNESOTA INCLUDING MANKATO...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH AND ST. JAMES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 AM. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE AREA THIS MORNING. MBK
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
623 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 AM 6 S DAWSON MN WIND DAMAGE
06/13/01 LAC QUI PARLE LARGE TREE BRANCHES
DOWN. REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 44 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:28 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a gas line on the west side of Apple Valley, igniting a fire in 3 homes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, June 2001
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: 5253883.