Funnel Cloud, Pierce
- When
- June 20, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pierce County, Rugby
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.250, -99.972 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in North Dakota, June 20, 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 20, 1:50 AM CST, 10 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 1:50 AM CST, 10 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 250 AM CDT WED JUN 20 2001 A SHORT WAVE ON THE LEE SIDE OF A BUILDING RIDGE WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. THE AVN SEEMS TO BE HANDLING THIS FEATURE BEST. IT FORECASTED SHOWERS AHEAD OF THE WAVE...WHICH ARE NOW OCCURRING IN NW ND. THIS MODEL ALSO DECREASES LIFTED INDICE VALUES TO LESS THAN ZERO BY MID DAY...SO EXPECT SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE SINGLE CELLED AND INTERSPERSED WITH SHOWERS LIKE YESTERDAY. AS THE SHORT WAVE PASSES...THE CHANCE OF PRECIP SHOULD END IN THE FAR NORTHWEST BY LATE AFTERNOON AND IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL THIS EVENING. THEN THE UPPER RIDGE SHOULD DOMINATE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH DRY AND WARM WEATHER. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN ON SATURDAY AS THE UPPER FLOW SHIFTS SOUTHWEST AHEAD OF A TROUGH. THUDNERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST UNTIL THE TROUGH PASSES ON MONDAY. .BIS...NONE. LM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 6:50 AM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
NDZ009-017-201345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 749 AM CDT (649 AM MDT) WED JUN 20 2001 A NARROW BAND OF LIGHT RAIN FROM WEST TO EAST ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER...WILL DRIFT EAST-SOUTHEAST THROUGH NORTHERN MCKENZIE COUNTY. THE LIGHT RAIN WILL REACH THE WATFORD CITY AREA AROUND 900 AM CDT. MR
The 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 20, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, June 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 20, 2001
- Hail in Colorado, June 20 to 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Maryland, June 20, 2001
- High Wind in New York, June 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, June 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 20, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in New York, June 20, 2001
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 20 to 21, 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: 5246327.