Winter Storm in Minnesota, November 24 to 25, 2001

Name: Winter Storm in Minnesota, November 24 to 25, 2001
Start: 2001-11-24T04:02
End: 2001-11-25T04:09
Location: Minnesota

November 24 to 25, 2001 · NWS FGF · 4 events in 4 counties and zones

A Colorado low pressure system tracked from western Nebraska into central Iowa, then moved into the western Great Lakes. The wind gusted up to 33 mph along with snowfall totals of 4 inches.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 4 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 4

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 happened

The episode as NWS FGF wrote it up.

A Colorado low pressure system tracked from western Nebraska into central Iowa, then moved into the western Great Lakes. The wind gusted up to 33 mph along with snowfall totals of 4 inches.

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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 24, 3:27 AM CST, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 24, 3:27 AM CST, 35 minutes before

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
327 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

.SHORT TERM...
LONG WAVE TROF WAS ACRS THE CNTRL US WHICH DEEPENS BY MON AS LONG
RIDGE BUILDS IN THE ERN PAC. PAT APPEARS FARTHER S THAN YSTRDY. VERT
STACKED CLOSED UPR LVL LOW OVR KS FCST TO MOV INTO NRN WI BY SUN
MORN AND BEGINS TO FILL AND OPEN UP. NEXT UPR TROF OVR THE ERN
PAC WL MOV INTO THE WRN US BY SUN MORN. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS DRY
SLOT OVR ERN KS IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT WITH MODELS. GOOD 850 HPA
GRAD OF MSTR EXTENDS ACRS WRN INTO N CNTRL MN THIS AFTN THEN SHFTS E
THIS EVE. LOW LVL CRITICAL THKNS DROPS BLO CRITERIA THIS AFTN
STARTING IN THE NW COUNTIES AND SWEEPING SE. BEST SFC PRES FALLS
FCST TO OCCUR OVR NE MN THIS AFTN AND TNGT, SO SFC WNDS ARE NOT XPCD
TO QUITE AS STRONG. WL EXTEND WINTER STORM WARN FARTHER E AND LET
DAY SHFT DECIDE WHAT TO DROP IN THE WRN COUNTIES. DLH AND BIS COORD.

.EXTENDED...
NO CHANGES.

.FGF...WINTER STORM WARNING SAT NGT...MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-
027>032-040-NDZ008-016-027-029-030-038-039-049-052-053.
WINTER STORM WATCH SAT AFTN AND SAT NGT...NDZ006-007-014-015-024-026-
028-054.

HOPPES

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

4 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Storm, Lake of the Woods

When: November 24, 4:02 AM CST to November 25, 4:09 AM CST
Where: Lake of the Woods forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 48.771, -94.905 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Storm, North Beltrami

When: November 24, 4:02 AM CST to November 25, 4:09 AM CST
Where: North Beltrami forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 47.974, -94.938 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Storm, South Beltrami

When: November 24, 4:02 AM CST to November 25, 4:09 AM CST
Where: South Beltrami forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 47.974, -94.938 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Storm, Hubbard

When: November 24, 4:02 AM CST to November 25, 4:09 AM CST
Where: Hubbard forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 47.109, -94.917 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Winter Storm: A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Minnesota in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Minnesota, November 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: 5272790, 5272791, 5272792, 5272793.