Flood, Wilkin
- When
- June 27, 8:50 AM CST to June 30, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Wilkin forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 46.357, -96.468 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Minnesota, June 27 to 30, 2003
Several rounds of thunderstorms brought 5 to 8 inches of rain to portions of Wilkin county. The underpass along highway 75 near Kent had water over the road for several days.
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
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS FGF wrote it up.
Several rounds of thunderstorms brought 5 to 8 inches of rain to portions of Wilkin county. The underpass along highway 75 near Kent had water over the road for several days. The county also reported water over other rural roads.
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 8:15 AM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 8:15 AM CST, 35 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 915 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 FORECAST CONCERNS WILL BE CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT TODAY MORNING SFC MAP SHOWS INITIAL TROUGH ACROSS CENTRAL ND...WITH A MORE POTENT TROUGH OR COOL FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHWEST ND IN ASSOCIATION WITH UPPER LEVEL ENERGY. 12Z UPPER AIR MAPS SHOW 110KT JET MAX MOVING INTO SOUTHERN ALBERTA...ALONG WITH 500MB SHORTWAVE SEEN ON WATER VAPOR MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL SASKATCHEWAN. WITH STRONG UPPER LEVEL ENERGY AND COOLING ALOFT WITH 850-500MB LAPSE RATES AROUND 7C AND CAPES FROM 500-1000J/KG...THUNER LIKELY IN EASTERN ND THIS AFTERNOON. GIVEN LOW LCL/S NEAR 3000-3500FT...IDEAL WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS OF 9000FT AND 0-6KM SHEAR 40-45KTS...EXPECT SOME SUPERCELLS ACROSS EASTERN ND THIS AFTERNOON WITH ALL TYPES OF SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE. NEW 12Z ETA TRIES TO CONSOLIDATE A SFC LOW IN EASTERN SD BY 00Z...WHICH WOULD ENHANCE HELICITY ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN ND/WEST CENTRAL MN FOR BEST TORNADO POTENTIAL HERE. PRECIPITABLE WATERS RISE TO AROUND 1.10 INCHES SO HEAVY RAIN ALSO POSSIBLE. MAY NEED TO ADD THUNDER IN WEST CENTRAL MN LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND LOWER TEMPS SLIGHTLY WITH CONVECTIVE TEMPS GENERALLY IN MID/UPPER 60S. NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED WITH GRIDS IN GOOD SHAPE. UPDATED GRIDS/ZONES WILL BE ISSUED BY 11 AM. .FGF...NONE KELLENBENZ
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:05 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-271300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 605 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 ...A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODAY AND TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA... NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON...TRACK INTO EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA BY LATE AFTERNOON...AND THEN MOVE INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AND ITS ASSOCIATED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT...PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN ALL BUT SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ON SATURDAY...AND FOR THE WHOLE AREA FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FGF/INDEX.HTML (ALL LOWER CASE) NG
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 27, 2003
- Flooding in Iowa, June 27 to 30, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 27, 2003
- Heavy Rain in Louisiana, June 27, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, June 27, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 27, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maine, June 27, 2003
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, June 2003
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: 5366200.