1 lightning, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 5, 2:45 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 345 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001 SHORTWV RAPIDLY PULLING OUT OF FSD CWA...LEAVING PLENTY OF STRATUS BEHIND. LOOK AT THE OBS SHOW LOWER CLDS ALL THRU MUCH OF THE AREA... INCLUDING SRN MN AND IA WHERE THE PERSISTANT LLVL ERLY FLOW WL ADV THIS STUFF IN ALL DAY. THEREFORE...COULD BE REAL TOUGH FOR THE LOWER CLDS TO BREAK OUT OF THE ERN ZONES...BACKED UP BY THE NGM/ETA RH TIME SECTIONS. THE WRN CWA HAS A BETTER CHC TO CLEAR OUT WITH SOME DRIER LLVL AIR ADVECTING IN MORE FM THE S. LARGE COMPLEX OF TSTMS TO THE S OF THE CWA...COULD LINGER A FEW SPRINKLES OR LIGHT SHOWERS ACRS NW IA THIS MRNG AS THE BLOWOFF REACHES THIS AREA...ELSEWHERE CONDITIONS SHOULD DRY BUT REMAIN COOL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. TNGT...MESOETA FCST SNDGS AND LLVL RH PROGS ARE FAIRLY DRY FM 925MB AND BLO. DESPITE THIS...AM STILL WORRIED ABOUT A LITTLE FOG FORMING HERE AND THERE WITH THE LIGHT SE FLOW IN MANY LOCATIONS. THE DRIEST LLVL AIR IS FOUND OVR THE WRN CWA SO FOG CHCS ARE THE LEAST THERE... AS WL AS SOME CONSIDERABLE MID TO HIGHER CLDS ADVECTING IN AFT MIDNIGHT. WHICH LEAVES US TO THE NEXT SHORTWV...DEPICTED WL BY THE ETA/AVN TO MOVE IN AS EARLY AS VERY LATE TNGT FOR THE WRN CWA...AND LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY. FLOW IS WK...BUT SOME WAA AND A LITTLE INSTABILITY DOES EXIST...AS WL AS STRONG MID LVL -DIV Q. THEREFORE OPTED TO GO SCT IN MANY LOCATIONS...AND LINGER SOME POPS IN FOR WED EVENING AS THESE THINGS ARE MANY TIMES NOTORIOUSLY SLOWER THAN PROGGED (I.E. PER AVN). HOWEVER...IT DOES APPEAR TS CHCS DWINDLE HEADING INTO THE ERN CWA LATE WED AND WED EVENING...AS OVERALL AIR MASS IS DRIER. AM ANTICIPATING MOST OF THE CONVECTION VERY LATE TNGT AND WED TO BE MID LVL BASED. MADE A MODIFICATION TO THE EXTENDED...KEPT THE TS GOING FOR SW MN ON THURSDAY WITH THE RIDGE RIDER TO THE NORTH. HOWEVER...AVN STILL IS SHOWING ANOTHER RIDGE RIDER MOVG DOWN THE NW FLOW FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. IT WAS SHOWING A HINT OF THIS YDAY...AND HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE THE BAIT AND GO AHD WITH A TS CHC WITH THIS WAVE. OVERALL...850 TEMPS NEVER RISE ABaV ABT +12C TO +14C OVR THE CWA THRU 120 HR...SO DO NOT EXPECT ANY HEAT WAVES ANYTIME SOON. GUIDANCE TEMPS DO NOT LOOK REAL BAD TDAY...JUST MADE SOME MINOR TWEEKING. .FSD...NONE FUHS
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:57 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a large tree, splitting the tree, and scattering debris up to a half black away.
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: 5252607.