Flood, Ransom
- When
- April 1, 12:00 AM CST to April 15, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Ransom forecast zone
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 46.456, -97.657 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in North Dakota, April 1 to 15, 2001
Many roads and culverts were damaged from overland flooding during the spring snowmelt.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
Many roads and culverts were damaged from overland flooding during the spring snowmelt.
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 Mar 31, 8:40 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 8:40 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 840 PM CST SAT MAR 31 2001 FORECAST CHALLENGE FOR TONIGHT IS TEMPS. CURRENT SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS SCT SC AND AC OVER CWFA....WITH SOME MVFR STILL IN E COUNTIES. LATEST MSAS SFC PRESSURE ANALYSIS HAS LOW CENTERED ON S EDGE OF LK YWG...WITH TROF EXTENDING THROUGH RED RIVER VALLEY INTO NE SD...AND RIDGE THROUGH W ND. WHEN COMPARING INITIALIZATION CONDITIONS TO MODELS...ETA IS A BETTER MATCH THAN AVN. LOW SLIDES SLOWLY SE INTO N MN OVERNIGHT...KEEPING CWFA UNDER CYCLONIC FLOW. BOTH RIDGE AND LOW WEAKEN OVERNIGHT...ALLOWING SFC PRESSURE GRADIENT TO WEAKEN. WITH BEST MOISTURE REMAINING CLOSEST TO THE LOW...S CWFA WILL SEE MOST CLEARING...AND THEREFORE THE COLDEST TEMPS. ALTHOUGH CURRENT TEMPS HOLDING AROUND 30...ANTICIPATE TEMPS TO DROP PRETTY QUICKLY ONCE WINDS DROP OFF...ESPECIALLY IN CLOUDLESwS AREAS. ALL IN ALL...CURRENT FORECAST LOWS IN 20S LOOK GOOD. ONLY MINOR CHANGES NEEDED TO FORECAST. .FGF...NONE NG
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flooding in Minnesota, April 1 to 30, 2001
- Flooding in Wisconsin, April 1 to 30, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, April 1 to 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 1, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, April 1 to 15, 2001
- Flooding in South Dakota, April 1 to 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 1, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, April 1 to 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 1, 2001
- Tornado in North Carolina, April 1, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, April 1, 2001
- Drought in North Carolina, April 1 to 30, 2001
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, April 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: 5238759.