Name: Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 6, 2001
Start: 2001-05-06T18:51
End: 2001-05-06T18:51
Location: Wisconsin

Where it happened

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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 6, 1:05 PM CST, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 1:05 PM CST, 5 hours 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
205 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001

THE FORECAST CHALLENGES TONIGHT ARE TSRA CHANCES AND THE POTENTIAL
FOR SEVERE WEATHER.

THE LATEST COMPUTER GENERATED MODELS...HAS THE STRONG UPPER LEVEL
TROUGH EXTENDING FROM CANADA INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS LIFTING
NORTHEAST OVER THE GREAT LAKES DURING THE PERIOD.  STRONG VORTEX AND
LOW PRESSURE CENTER OVER EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTAS ALONG WITH SHARP MID
LEVEL TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE NECESSARY LIFT AND FORCING
OVER MUCH OF OUR CWA THIS EVENING.  CLOUD COVER HAS INHIBIT SOLAR
INSULATION SO FAR...BUT THE LATEST VISIBLE WAS SHOWING SOME BREAKS
OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MN.   WITH LOW LCLS...LOW TOP
SUPERCELL ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.  WILL
MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IN THE BODY OF FORECAST.
SURFACE BASE CAPES HAVE BEEN GENERALLY LESS THAN 600 J/KG.  ANY
HEATING NEAR THE SURFACE WILL LIKELY INCREASE THE DESTABLIZATION OF
THE ATMOSPHERE AND CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL.

UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND UPPER LOW MOVES OVER MN ON MONDAY.  SCATTERED
SHOWERS CONTINUES. THIS WILL PROVIDE SOME STEEP LAPSES RATES WITH
RESIDUAL MOISTURE REMAINING OVER FORECAST AREA THROUGH TUESDAY.

THE FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL SHIFT TO TEMPERATURES DURING THE LATTER
PERIODS.  MINIMUM/MAX TEMPS WILL BE HIGHLY INFLUENCE BY CLOUD COVER
OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

.MSP...NONE.
JVM

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:51 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, St. Croix

When: May 6, 6:51 PM CST
Where: St. Croix County, Hudson
Measured: 60 kt (69 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 44.967, -92.767

Trees and power lines blown down.

What these are

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

More

Every storm in Wisconsin in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Wisconsin, May 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: 5249717.