1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 6, 8:35 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
935 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001
EMERGENCE OF DRYING ALFT OVER MOIST LOW LVLS...COMBINED WITH
ASCENT FORCING OF LARGE SCALE UPPER LOW HAS RESULTED IN THE MAIN
EVENT ACROSS THE PLAINS...AS WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ERUPTED.
SFC WMFNT CONTINUES TO WORK GRADUALLY NWRD...CLOSE TO KADU...KTQE...
KOLU...KODX LINE. ELEVATED PARCELS INDICATED BY LAPS/RAOBS DO HAVE
SMALL CAPES WITH HIGH MAX THERMAL DIFFERENCES. HOWEVER...WIND
PROFILES IN USEFUL AIRMASS ABV INVERSION ARE HIGHLY UNIDIRECTIONAL.
NEXT FEW HOURS WILL BE CRITICAL FOR ANY PSBL SVR STORMS. TRAJECTORY
OF BROAD PRECIP AREA SEEMS IN LINE WITH CURRENT AREA OF FFA...AND WL
KEEP CLOSE EYE ON AS FFG FOR THESE COUNTIES ARE ON ORDER OF 1 TO 1.5
IN 3H. STILL LOOKING FOR SFC LOW TO MOVE JUST N AND W OF KFSD LT
TNGT AND DRAW WM AIR AT SFC. NO CHG TO HILITE PACKAGES ATTM.
.FSD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TNGT AND ERY SAT W OF JAMES RVR
HIGH WIND WATCH SATURDAY MO RVR CORRIDOR
HIGH WIND WATCH LT SAT AM THRU AFTN SW MN INTO
CHAPMANPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1112 PM CDT FRI APR 06 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0921 PM 2 SE CARTHAGE SD .88 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 MINER REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0930 PM 10 SW DE SMET SD .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 KINGSBURY REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1123 PM CDT FRI APR 06 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM DIXON NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 DIXON REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE.
0532 PM 1 N DIXON NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 DIXON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0540 PM DIXON NE LIGHTNING
04/06/01 DIXON LIGHTNING CAUSED HOUSE
FIRE. REPORTED BY FIRE
AND RESCUE.
0545 PM 5 NE DIXON NE 1.5 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 DIXON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0550 PM MARTINSBURG NE .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 DIXON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0550 PM 3 W PONCA NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 DIXON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0552 PM 3 S ELK PT SD .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 UNION REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0630 PM 4 E SIOUX RAPIDS IA HEAVY RAIN
04/06/01 BUENA VISTA .80 INCHES RAINFALL IN
20 MINUTES. PONDING
WATER IN SOME FIELDS.
REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0921 PM 2 SE CARTHAGE SD .88 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 MINER REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0930 PM 10 SW DE SMET SD .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 KINGSBURY REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:18 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in power outages in parts of the county. The winds also destroyed a silo, blew out the wall of a barn, the roof of a shed, windows on the south side of a house, and damaged road signs and outbuildings.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, April 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: 5244330.