Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1997, 6:01 PM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1997, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Redwood County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 6:02 PM CDT | Hail 3 | Morgan, MN | Extensive crop damage. Shattered windows in barn. |
| Jul 13, 6:03 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lamberton, MN | Several trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 255 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSP 132303 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC127-132345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
601 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
REDWOOD COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
WALNUT GROVE
LUCAN
LAMBERTON
WABASSO
* AT 6 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS JUST WEST OFB LAMBERTON..OR ABOUT 30 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF REDWOOD FALLS. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH.
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
MILLERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Yellow Medicine | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Yellow Medicine | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 56 min |
| Jul 13, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 58 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.