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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 7:20 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 820 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 FORECAST CHALLENGE OVERNIGHT WILL BE CONVECTION SFC LOW IS SLOWLY DEEPENING THIS EVENING OVER SOUTHWEST SD...WITH SFC WARMFRONT EXTENDING EAST INTO SOUTHERN MN. TWO CONVECTIVE CLUSTERS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS ND AND SD ATTM...IN RESPONSE TO STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET AND 55KT 500 MB SPEED MAX. IMPRESSIVE MOISTURE ADVECTION WILL COMMENCE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ND AFTER 03Z...WITH 30KT 925MB JET...AS DEWPOINTS AT 850MB INCREASE FROM AROUND +2C AT 00Z TO +12C AT 06Z. SHOWALTERS ALSO INCREASE TO AROUND -5C IN SOUTHEAST ND AROUND 06Z. FURTHER NORTH...MOISTURE ADVECTION ALSO LOOKS FAIRLY IMPRESSIVE...WITH MORE DYNAMICS CLOSER TO 100KT SPEED MAX AT 300MB AND ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE. IN ADDITION...A COLD FRONT NOW ENTERING WESTERN ND WILL ADD SOME SFC BASED CONVERGENCE AIDING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT INTO THE RED RIVER VALLEY AROUND 06Z. STORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE INTO THE NORTHEAST FA...AS INSTABILITY HERE IS ALSO WEAKER THAN REST OF FA. WILL THEREFORE GO SCATTERED STORMS HERE LATE...WITH LIKELY POPS ELSEWHERE. SEVERE THREAT IS ALSO POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ALONG A VALLEY CITY TO FFM LINE NEAR BEST INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE. DON/T FEEL THAT THIS WARRANTS A MENTION IN ZONES THOUGH...WITH BEST LOW LEVEL JET FOCUSED INTO SOUTHERN MN/IOWA AFTER 06Z. A FEW SEVERE HAIL/WIND REPORTS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT AS STRONG MCS MOVES ACROSS SOUTHEAST ND INTO WEST CENTRAL MN AFTER 04Z...BUT NOT ENOUGH TO WARRANT A MENTION IN THE ZONES. REFER TO NEW SWODY1 FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION. .FGF...NONE. KELLENBENZ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a home in Lisbon, starting a fire in the attic.
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, June 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: 5251051.