Tornado, Brule
- When
- June 9, 9:26 PM CST
- Where
- Brule County, 8 mi S of Kimball
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.633, -98.950
A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
Tornado and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 9, 2001
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 2
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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 9, 8:20 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:20 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 920 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001 LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS NOW FILLING IN FM CNTRL DKTS TO CNTRL NE AND NOW LOOKS LIKE MOST OF CWA WILL HAVE TSTMS LKLY MOVG EWD OVR CWA AFTER MIDN. EARLIER UPDATED WITH NEW WATCH TO UP POPS TO AT LEAST SCT OVR CWA...BUT WILL MONITOR FOR ANOTHER UPDATE TO UNQUALIFIED POPS. OTRW PREV FCST IN THE BALLPARK. BIG QUESTION IS HOW MUCH OF THE TSTMS WILL REMAIN SVR AFT MIDN...AND WILL KEEP THE MENTION OF SVR MOST SD CWA EXCPT FAR SE...BUT WDLY SCT SVR FURTHER E NOT OUT OF QUESTION AS SHORT WAVE INTERACTS WITH LOW LVL JET AND INSTABILITY. .FSD...NONE RYRHOLM
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 179 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:23 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Brule
- When
- June 9, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Brule County, Kimball
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.750, -98.950
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Tornado and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 9, 2001
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 2001Warnings in South 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: 5252608, 5252609.