1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 8:11 PM CST, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 911 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2001 ...DISCUSSION DELAYED DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER... ...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE THIS PACKAGE IS SVR CONVECTION WITH FROPA... .CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW...INTENSE SVR TSTMS HAVE MOVED THROUGH THE GRAND FORKS METRO AREA. WIND GUSTS TO 101 MPH WERE RECORDED WITH THE WEATHER OFFICE HERE. BROKEN LINE OF SVR CELLS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. .SHORT TERM...WILL MAKE SHORT TERM ADJUSTMENTS TO ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR CURRENT TSTM ACTIVITY. ZONES WILL AGAIN BE UPDATED WHEN WATCH STATUS CHANGES. .FGF...TORNADO WATCH 664 UNTIL 11 PM (DUE TO BE REVISED BY 10 PM) BRAMER
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
722 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0245 PM 6 NW PONSFORD MN 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/08/01 BECKER
0339 PM AKELEY MN 62 MPH TSTM GUST
08/08/01 HUBBARD MEASURED MN DOT
ROADSIDE SITE
0340 PM PARK RAPIDS MN WIND DAMAGE
08/08/01 HUBBARD NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
0600 PM 2 SW MADDOCK ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/08/01 BENSON
0620 PM 4 SW ESMOND ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/08/01 BENSON
0620 PM 9 NW MADDOCK ND .88 INCH HAIL
08/08/01 BENSON 4 INCH DIAMETER TREE
BRANCHES ALSO DOWN
0623 PM 5 NE MADDOCK ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/08/01 BENSON 4 INCH DIAMETER TREE
BRANCHES ALSO DOWN
0640 PM 4 NW OBERON ND WIND DAMAGE
08/08/01 BENSON 2 TREES BLOWN DOWN
NNNNPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
1130 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0722 PM PARK RIVER ND WIND DAMAGE
08/08/01 WALSH 7 INCH DIAMETER BRANCHES
DOWN
0730 PM 4 N PEKIN ND 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/08/01 NELSON
0735 PM 12 N NIAGARA ND .88 INCH HAIL
08/08/01 GRAND FORKS
0805 PM COOPERSTOWN ND WIND DAMAGE
08/08/01 GRIGGS 4 INCH DIAMETER BRANCHES
DOWN
0815 PM EMERADO ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/08/01 GRAND FORKS
0815 PM EMERADO ND 103 MPH TSTM GUST
08/08/01 GRAND FORKS
0825 PM GRAND FORKS ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/08/01 GRAND FORKS
0826 PM GRAND FORKS ND 101 MPH TSTM GUST
08/08/01 GRAND FORKS TSTM WIND GUST AT NWS
OFFICE
0835 PM 2 SW ROGERS ND .88 INCH HAIL
08/08/01 BARNES
0835 PM 2 SW ROGERS ND WIND DAMAGE
08/08/01 BARNES 3 INCH DIAMETER BRANCHES
DOWN
0847 PM VALLEY CITY ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/08/01 BARNES
0935 PM FARGO ND WIND DAMAGE
08/08/01 CASS ROOFS BLOWN OFF OF
STRUCTURES
1000 PM ALICE ND WIND DAMAGE
08/08/01 CASS TREES DOWN
THROUGHOUT TOWN
NNNNPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
1131 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1037 PM 10 E PELICAN RAPIDS MN 70 MPH TSTM GUST
08/08/01 OTTER TAIL
1043 PM TENSTRIKE MN WIND DAMAGE
08/08/01 BELTRAMI 12 INCH DIAMETER BRANCHES
DOWN
1045 PM ADA MN FLOODING
08/08/01 NORMAN BASEMENT FLOODING IN TOWN
NNNNThe Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:18 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike caused a fire which destroyed a home.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, August 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: 5264823.