1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 20, 1:50 PM CST, 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 250 PM CDT SAT OCT 20 2001 FOCUS FOR THIS CYCLE WILL BE EVENING SHOWERS AND TEMPS. WEAK FRONT DROPPING SOUTH IN WNWLY FLOW. SOME PRETTY COLD AIR IS POISED IN CANADA. TWENTIES ARE NOTED IN MANITOBA BEHIND THE FRONT IN CONTRAST TO THE 40S AHEAD OF IT. DESPITE WEAK, NARROW RIBBONS OF VORTICITY EMBEDDED IN THE FLOW, ISENTROPIC CHARTS SHOW THE CWA IN A REGION OF GENERAL DOWNGLIDE. HOWEVER, SOME SHOWERS CONTINUE TO POP NEAR THE FRONT AND LATE DAY CU/SC DVLPG IN NWRN MN ON VIS SATL IS EVIDENCE OF THE COLD AIR. ONCE SHOWERS MOVE EAST THS EVENING, THE AREA REMAINS QUIET AS DRIER HIGH PRESSURE SLIPS IN. CONDENSATION PRESSURE DEFICITS AND LAYER RH INDICATE THAT MOISTURE WILL BE MAINLY SCATTERED MIDDLE CLOUDS TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. STRONG ISENTROPIC LIFT BEGINS IN THE WESTERN DAKOTAS SUNDAY NIGHT WHICH IS THE BEGINNING OF THE MONDAY-TUESDAY STORM. MODEL PERFORMACE IS QUITE GOOD WITH THE CONSITENT PLACEMENT OF THE SFC AND UPR AIR FEATURES. MAV/FWC GDNC TEMPS ARE VERY CLOSE AS WELL. COOLER FWC FOR SUNDAY SEEMS MORE CONSISTENT WITH UPSTREAM TEMPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE INITIAL INFLUX OF COOL AIR. ETA HAS A BETTER EARLY MATCH OF MOISTURE, SFC FEATURES, ETC. SO WILL GO WITH THE ETA, ALTHOUGH THE DIFFERENCES ARE NOT LARGE. .DLH...NONE. CS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightening struck a hilltop soccer field, injuring a 13-year-old player and his adult coach. The boy was taken to the hospital and initially listed in critical condition. He was subsequently released. His coach was treated at the hospital and released.
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, October 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: 5271879.