Funnel Cloud, Renville
- When
- June 17, 6:37 PM CST
- Where
- Renville County, Glenburn
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 48.719, -101.658 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Two funnel clouds were observed briefly.
Funnel Cloud in North Dakota, June 17, 2001
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- None recorded
- 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 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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 300 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE MODEL FORECAST WILL FORCE CHANGES TO GOING ZONES. FRONT IS NOT AS PROGRESSIVE AS PREVIOUSLY FORECAST AND THIS WILL LEAD TO A PROLONGED THREAT OF STORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. ETA HAS PICKED UP ON THIS...AND BECAUSE OF ITS BEST JOB ON THIS MORNINGS CONVECTION...HAVE OPTED TO FOLLOW IT FOR DETAILS. ETA/AVN MORE SIMILAR WITH NGM ODD BALL OUT. PROBLEM CONTINUES TO BE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. ETA INDICATING THAT SURFACE BOUNDARY PASSING THROUGH TONIGHT WILL BE INVIGORATED BY H5 SHORT WAVE TROF FORECAST TO KDIK BY 12Z. WITH THIS FEATURE THE ETA BRINGS AN AREA OF /0.25-0.50/ QPF ACROSS THE CWA OVERNIGHT. AVN INDICATES THIS TO BE AN MCS AND DUMPS MORE THAN AN INCH AND A QUARTER ON BIS AREA BY 12Z MONDAY. THE FLY IN THIS OINMENT MAY TURN OUT TO BE AN MCS THAT COULD DEVELOP OVER E NEBRASKA/E SD/S MN/W IOWA. IF THIS MCS DEVELOPS IT COULD ROB THE MOISTURE FROM ND. HOWEVER...ENOUGH PARAMETERS COME TOGETHER OVER ND TO GO WITH SCT POPS TONIGHT...INCLUDING AN INCREASE IN LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN THE FORM OF 60 DEWS WHICH LEADS TO AN INCREASE IN INSTABILITY. CAPE VALUES 400-800 J/KG. HAVE OPTED TO INCLUDE SOME SEVERE WORDING AS COOL POOL ALOFT AND LOW WET BULB ZERO SHOULD SUPPORT HAIL. ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT DUE INFLUX OF H2 JET...NEARING 100 KNOTS. LEFTOVER CONVECTION LIKELY CE NTRAL AND EAST EARLY MONDAY MORNING. LOOKS LIKE DRY WEATHER TO COME IN WEDNESDAY AND HOLD THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. TEMPERATURE CLIMBING ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS BY THURSDAY-FRIDAY TIME FRAME. .BIS...NONE. JP MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 2:27 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
NDZ001-009-172226- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 326 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001 AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO DIVIDE AND NORTHERN WILLIAMS COUNTIES. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING EAST AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO EFFECT THE AREA THROUGH 530 PM CDT. PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT. BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED IN SOME AREAS. ASSID
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 4:30 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
NDZ001-009-180100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 530 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE ACROSS NORTHEAST MONTANA AND MOVE INTO NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. ALTHOUGH SCATTERED THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND DAYMAGING HAIL. AS THESE STORMS PASS THROUGH SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING PA
Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:55 PM CST, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
655 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
625 PM 8 NW ALEXANDER ND .75 SIZED HAIL
HEAVY RAIN
06/17/01 MCKENZIE STORM SPOTTER
PAThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Illinois, June 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Massachusetts, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 17, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, June 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Connecticut, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Tornado in Maine, June 17, 2001
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, June 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: 5246320.