Flood, Wright
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wright forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 45.174, -93.963 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flooding in Minnesota, May 1 to 8, 2001
20 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 20 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 20
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 Apr 30, 8:00 PM CST, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 8:00 PM CST, 4 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 900 PM CDT MON APR 30 2001 BRF ROUND OF HAIL PRODUCING TSTMS IN SC MN NOW WKNG WITH ONSET OF DARKNESS AND MVMT INTO LESS FVBL LOW LVL WND/STABILITY FIELD. ADVANCE OF LOW DWPTS ACRS W CWA HAS PRETTY MUCH HALTED AS RIDGING BUILDING AND SLY FLOW DLPG AHD OF LOW IN E NEB. ONCE CLDS CLR..MAY SEE SOME AREAS OF FOG E CWA AS SPRDS NOW ONLY A FEW DEGREES. NO CHGS BEYOND FIRST PRD. SYS COMING ACRS ID/MT LOOKS RATHER VIGOROUS FOR MN TMRW. .MSP...NONE. PAULSON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 30, 7:46 PM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
846 PM CDT MON APR 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LObCATION....
0734 PM 1 S TRUMAN MN 1 INCH HAIL
04/30/01 MARTIN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
20 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flood, Yellow Medicine
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Yellow Medicine forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.716, -95.868 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Lac Qui Parle
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lac Qui Parle forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.996, -96.173 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Snowmelt flooding that began April 1 continued into early May on the major rivers: the Minnesota, St. Croix, Crow River, South Fork of the Crow River, and the Mississippi River below its confluence with the Minnesota River. See April Storm Data for details, including damage amounts. The last of the river levels finally went below warning criteria on May 8.
Flood, Blue Earth
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Blue Earth forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.035, -94.067 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Brown
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Brown forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.242, -94.727 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Carver
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Carver forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.821, -93.803 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Chippewa
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Chippewa forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 45.022, -95.567 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Dakota
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dakota forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.672, -93.065 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Goodhue
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Goodhue forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.410, -92.723 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Hennepin
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hennepin forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 45.005, -93.477 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Le Sueur
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Le Sueur forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.371, -93.730 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, McLeod
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- McLeod forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.824, -94.272 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Nicollet
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Nicollet forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.350, -94.247 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Ramsey
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ramsey forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 45.017, -93.100 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Redwood
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Redwood forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.404, -95.254 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Renville
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Renville forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.727, -94.947 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Scott
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Scott forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.649, -93.536 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Sibley
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sibley forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.580, -94.232 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Swift
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Swift forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 45.283, -95.681 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood, Washington
- When
- May 1, 12:00 AM CST to May 8, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Washington forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 45.039, -92.884 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 1, 2001
- Drought in Florida, May 1 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, May 1, 2001
- Flooding in Wisconsin, May 1 to 18, 2001
- Flooding in Minnesota, May 1 to 16, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 1 to 9, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 1 to 18, 2001
- High Wind in California, May 1 to 2, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, May 1 to 2, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 1, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 1, 2001
- Drought in North Carolina, May 1 to 31, 2001
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, May 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: 5249352, 5249353, 5250127, 5250128, 5250129, 5250130, 5250131, 5250132, 5250205, 5250206, 5250207, 5250208, 5250209, 5250210, 5250211, 5250212, 5250213, 5250214, 5250215, 5250216.