Thunderstorm Wind, Martin
- When
- June 15, 7:35 PM CST
- Where
- Martin County, Fairmont Arpt
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 43.650, -94.433
Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 15, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 15, 2:00 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:00 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 300 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2001 CONVECTION OVER S DAKOTA IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE FORECAST AREA ON THE LEFT EXIT OF UPPER JET. A LINE OF STORMS IN NE SD COINCIDES WITH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE...SHOWING UP ON THE SURFACE CHART. MODELS CONTINUE TO TRANSLATE INSTABILITY AND LIFT ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. STEEP LAPSE RATES AND SOME HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH LOW WET BULB ZERO VALUES. THE SYSTEM SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE AREA...WITH WRLY FLOW OVER THE AREA. MODELS KEEP MAIN BAROCLINIC BOUNDARY TO THE SOUTH...BUT BOTH AVN AND ETA INDICATE A SHORT WAVE IN THE WRLYS TRIGGER SHOWERS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH ETA TIMING SOMEWHAT FASTER. THE FORECAST WILL INTRODUCE SHOWERS FROM WRN MN ZONES ON SUNDAY. THE EXTENDED FORECAST HAS BEEN BROAD BRUSHED WITH WRLY FLOW CONTINUING AND IMPULSES POSSIBLY BRINGING LATE DAY SHOWERS TO THE AREA.. .MSP...NONE. SCOTT
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 150 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:33 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 15, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 15, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, June 15 to 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 15, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, June 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, June 15, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 15, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 15, 2001
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5254117.