3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 29, 1:10 PM CST, 5 hours earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 210 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001 FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE TEMPS AND PRECIP CHANCES .OVERVIEW... LATEST SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS WEAK FRONT/TROUGH PUSHING EAST INTO MN SIDE OF FA. SLIGHT DEWPOINT COOLING IS NOTED BEHIND FEATURE...AS THEY DROP INTO THE LOWER 60S. ETA DID A BIT BETTER JOB INITIALIZING MASS FIELDS...WITH AVN NOT TOO FAR BEHIND. .SHORT TERM... CONCERN THIS EVENING IS CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL IN EASTERN FA. TROUGH IS PROGRESSING A LITTLE FASTER THAN MODELS HAVE PROGGED. THIS SHOULD LIMIT SFC CONVERGENCE AS A WEST/NORTHWEST FLOW DEVELOPS AND TROUGH AND DEVELOPING CONVECTION MAKES IT OUT OF FA AROUND 21Z. EVEN THOUGH A 50KT SPEED MAX WILL RIDE INTO AREA AFTER 00Z...FEEL ANY SFC FORCING WILL BE LOST WITH TROUGH PASSAGE. IN ADDITION...850MB DEWPOINTS DRY TO AROUND +9C THIS EVENING. INSTABILITIES ALSO DROP AFTER 00Z...SO EXPECT A DRY EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT NORTH AFTER 06Z...COUPLED WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE COULD LEAD TO PATCHY FOG...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTH AND EAST WHERE HIGHER DEWPOINTS WILL BE. WILL MENTION FOG IN HERE FOR THIS REASON. .LONG TERM... SIGNIFICANT COLD FRONT DROPS INTO REGION TOMORROW FROM NORTH. 850MB TEMPS COOL TO AROUND +6C ACROSS THE NORTH...WITH THE SOUTH MUCH WARMER AT +14C. WITH THE PASSAGE OF FRONT...AND RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF 110KT 300MB SPEED MAX...EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS NORTH WHERE INSTABILITY WILL BE LIMITED. EXPECT PLENTY OF CLOUDS AS WELL WITH CONVECTIVE TEMPS IN THE MID 60S...ANY SUNSHINE SHOULD SELF DESTRUCT. FROM GFK SOUTH...CAPES AROUND 600 J/KG WITH LI/S TO -4C WILL PREVAIL AFTER 18Z. IN ADDITION...SFC DEWPOINTS WILL BE AROUND 60F WITH 850MB DEWPOINTS POOLING AHEAD OF FRONT AROUND +10C. EXPECT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG GOOD SFC CONVERGENCE NEAR FRONT BY AFTERNOON. WITH WET BULB ZERO LEVELS DROPPING TO 9500FT...WOULD NOT RULE OUT SOME ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL. WEAK SUBSIDENCE WILL BUILD IN SAT NIGHT BEHIND DEPARTING SHORTWAVE PASSING NORTH OF BORDER. RELATIVE HUMIDITY PROGS SHOW DRIER AIR WORKING INTO NORTHERN FA AS HIGH CONTINUES TO BUILD INTO ARROWHEAD. 850MB TEMPS ALSO DROP TO AROUND +2C IN NORTH...SO EXPECT TEMPS BELOW NORMAL. TO THE SOUTH...FRONT WILL LINGER IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND EXPECT MORE CLOUDS CLOSER TO RETURN FLOW. ON SUNDAY...LOW LEVEL JET DEVELOPS IN WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. SHOWALTER/S DROP TO AROUND -2C IN WESTERN FA BY 00Z MON. STRONG 850MB WARM AIR ADVECTION MOVES INTO THE RED RIVER VALLEY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION...STRONG LIFT IN THE 850-700MB LAYER RESULTS AHEAD OF 500MB SHORTWAVE WHICH SHOULD AID ELEVATED CONVECTION. EXPECT SHOWERS BY LATE IN THE DAY SUNDAY IN EASTERN FA...WHERE STABLE AIR WILL HANG ON ALL DAY. TEMPS WILL BE COOLEST IN THE NORTHEAST...CLOSER TO DEPARTING HIGH. EXTENDED...LONG RANGE MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT...WITH MRF TIMING COMPROMISE...SO UTILIZED FOR FORECAST. UPPER LEVEL NW FLOW DOMINATES THROUGH EXTENDED WITH A SHORTWAVE AND SFC FRONT MOVING THROUGH CWFA ON MON...SO KEPT CHC TSRA. UPPER LEVEL LOW AND ASSOCIATED TROF MOVE THROUGH CWFA TUE NIGHT THROUGH WED...KEEPING CYCLONIC FLOW OVER CWFA ON WED...SO ADDED CHC TSRA TO FORECAST. SFC HIGH THEN BUILDS IN FOR THU AND FRI...SO KEPT DRY. AS FAR AS TEMPS...FMR AND MEX SIMILAR...KEEPING TEMPS IN NORMAL TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL RANGE. .FGF...NONE. KELLENBENZ/NG
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 185 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:12 UTC.
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The strong wind blew shingles off a roof and threw a 8x8 foot fish house 150 yards.
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: 5253303, 5253304, 5251049, 5251050.