1 flash flood, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 2:30 AM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 330 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 FIRST WAVE OF HEAVY/SVR STORMS NOW MAINLY N OF INTERSTATE 90 ASSCD WITH LIFT N OF WMFNT STILL LOCKED BY OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FM NRN NE TO NRN IA. AFT MCC MOVES OFF TO E LATER THIS MRNG...EXPCT WARM ADV TO PUSH FNT N SOME...NOT AS FAR N AS AVN/NGM BUT NOT AS FAR S AS ETA EITHER. WILL PLAY MIDDLE OF ROAD AND FACTOR IN PREV FCST FOR SOMEWHAT WARMER THAN GUID ESP SRN CWA TDA. ANOTHER BIG SHOT OF ENERGY WILL COME AROUND BOTTOM OF UPR TROF INTO ESP SRN AND ERN CWA FOR LATE THIS AFTN AND TNGT...PSBLY MUCH STGR THAN PREV FCST. WILL HIT PRETTY HARD WITH HIGH POPS AND PSBLTY OF SVR/HVY AGAIN. DISAGREE WITH SPC WITH S BIAS OF MOD RISK AS PER ETA AND THINK IT SHOULD BE AT LEAST AS FAR N AS INTERSTATE 90 FOR THIS EVE. DAYSHIFT CAN FINE TUNE TIMING OF THIS NEXT WAVE...AND PSBLY EVEN PUT A FFA pIF IT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL DVLP. WILL CANCEL SRN PART OF WATCH AT 4 AM ISSUANCE. .FSD...NONE RYRHOLM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1244 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0713 PM SIOUX FALLS SD 2.5 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 MINNEHAHA
0818 PM 5 NE FORESTBURG SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 SANBORN REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0846 PM OCHEYEDAN IA 1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 OSCEOLA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1015 PM HARTFORD SD .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 MINNEHAHA REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1019 PM 6 S HARTFORD SD TORNADO
06/12/01 MINNEHAHA REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1028 PM CROOKS SD .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 MINNEHAHA REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1049 PM TEA SD 52 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/01 LINCOLN REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1050 PM SIOUX FALLS SD 75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/01 MINNEHAHA MEASURED BY MEDIA
EQUIPMENT.
1056 PM 2 W SIOUX FALLS SD WIND DAMAGE
06/12/01 MINNEHAHA BARN DESTROYED.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1102 PM SIOUX FALLS SD 80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/01 MINNEHAHA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1156 PM MADISON SD .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 LAKE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1156 PM COLTON SD 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/01 MINNEHAHA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1256 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....u
1239 AM CROOKS SD .88 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 MINNEHAHAPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
106 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0543 PM 5 E MELVIN IA .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 OSCEOLA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0848 PM 10 S LAKE PARK IA 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 DICKINSON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0920 PM SPIRIT LAKE IA 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 DICKINSON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0923 PM 10 SW JACKSON MN 1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0938 PM 7 S MELVIN IA .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/01 OSCEOLA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
141 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1220 AM FLANDREAU SD .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 MOODY REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0128 AM CHAMBERLAIN SD .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 BRULE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
301 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0214 AM CHAMBERLAIN SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 BRULE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
334 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0127 AM 6 SW CHANDLER MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01 MURRAYThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding, caused by thunderstorm rains of around four inches, occurred in small streams and low areas. Several roads in the Huron area were flooded, as were Riverside park, Memorial Golf Course, and a swimming pool pump house.
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, 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5252615.