1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 3:10 PM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 410 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 .DISCUSSION...HEAVY RAIN IS SLOWLY DECREASING AND MOVING NORTH WITH THE AREA OF HEAVIEST RAIN CORRELATING BEST WITH GFS JET DIVERGENCE COUPLETS. EXTREME SOUTHEAST ND APPEARS FINALLY READY GET SOMETHING OF A MUCH NEEDED DRY SLOT THOUGH SCATTERED SHOWERS MAY RETURN INTO EVENING. SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NEAR AND EAST OF SD/MN LINE DON/T LOOK ESPECIALLY THREATENING ATTM BUT PROBABLY ONLY NEEDS A BIT MORE WARMING TO KICK OFF TO SEVERE. THE LOW PRESSURE CENTER IS CURRENTLY TRACKING ABOUT 50 NM FARTHER WEST OF MODELS LOCATION AND WILL PLACE AREAS EAST OF RED RIVER VALLEY INTO THE WARM SECTOR EARLY TONIGHT. .SHORT TERM...GFS MODEL STILL APPEARS TO HAVE THE BEST HANDLE AND ACCEPTED ITS QPF VALUES WITH SOME DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT. LOTS OF RAIN NEXT SEVERAL DAYS IS CAUSE FOR CONCERN IN KEEPING SOILS SATURATED SO WILL ISSUE ESF. AN EXPECTED BREAK ON SUNDAY WILL PROVIDE MUCH HELP BUT MAYBE NOT ENOUGH TO KEEP SOME FLOODING. .LONG TERM (WED-SAT)... MAIN QUESTION IN THE EARLY PART OF THE EXTENDED IS HOW FAST WILL THE UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVE OUT. CANADIAN/ECMWF ARE A BIT SLOWER THAN THE GFS...BUT WILL HOLD OFF FOR NOW (WITH CONSENSUS) ON ADDING ANY PCPN TO THE EARLY PART OF WED. THEREAFTER LOOKING AT A BUILDING 500MB RIDGE AND A DRY/WARM PERIOD. THIS HAS GOOD MODEL CONSISTENCY AS WELL. ONLY QUESTION IS HOW WARM TO GO. GFS SEEMS TO BE SLOW AT BUILDING THE WARMER AIR IN...BUT THAT IS A TENDENCY OF THAT MODEL. WOULD LIKE TO GO A BIT HIGHER THAN MEX GUIDANCE TEMPS (CLOSER TO HPC)...BUT WILL STAY IN THE LOW 80S FOR NOW. && .AVIATION... LOTS OF RAIN SPREADING INTO ALL THE TAF SITES...WHICH WILL MEAN A PROLONGED PERIOD OF LOWER CEILINGS/VSBYS. AS SYSTEM PULLS OUT LATE TONIGHT WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR FOG POTENTIAL AGAIN. LOOKS LIKE MOST CLOUD COVER SHOULD ALSO EXIT THE AREA BY MID MORNING SUNDAY. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...ESF ISSUED FOR HEAVY RAIN. MN...ESF ISSUED FOR HEAVY RAIN. && GV
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1215 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-121032- BARNES ND-BENSON ND-CASS ND-CAVALIER ND-CLAY MN-EAST BECKER MN- EAST MARSHALL MN-EAST OTTER TAIL MN-EAST POLK MN- EASTERN WALSH COUNTY ND-EDDY ND-GRAND FORKS ND-GRANT MN-GRIGGS ND- HUBBARD MN-KITTSON MN-LAKE OF THE WOODS MN-MAHNOMEN MN-NELSON ND- NORMAN MN-NORTH BELTRAMI MN-NORTH CLEARWATER MN-PEMBINA ND- PENNINGTON MN-RAMSEY ND-RANSOM ND-RED LAKE MN-RICHLAND ND-ROSEAU MN- SARGENT ND-SOUTH BELTRAMI MN-SOUTH CLEARWATER MN-STEELE ND-TOWNER ND- TRAILL ND-WADENA MN-WEST BECKER MN-WEST MARSHALL MN- WEST OTTER TAIL MN-WEST POLK MN-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY ND-WILKIN MN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEMIDJI...DETROIT LAKES...DEVILS LAKE... FARGO...FERGUS FALLS...GRAFTON...GRAND FORKS...LANGDON...ROSEAU... THIEF RIVER FALLS...VALLEY CITY AND WAHPETON 1215 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS AN AREA INCLUDING SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE TOTAL RAINFALL FOR THE DAY AS MUCH AS 2 TO 2.5 INCHES MAY FALL IN A FEW SPOTS AND CAUSE PONDING OF WATER OR MINOR FLOODING. OVERALL RAINFALL WILL BE MUCH LESS HOWEVER. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO DEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY NON-SEVERE WINDS ARE EXPECTED BY LATE AFTERNOON OR EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AGAIN ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY...MOST NUMEROUS OVER SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED ONE INCH IN THE FAR SOUTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. GV
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:31 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The tornado briefly touched down in Felton. Many large trees were uprooted or snapped off. Some roof damage was also reported from broken tree branches.
The official National Weather Service cooperative observer reported 2.40 inches of rain in a short period of time. Many streets and underpasses were flooded. Several people had to be pulled out of flooded roads.
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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: 5461400, 5461401.