Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1997, 2:19 PM CDT for Mille Lacs County, Morrison County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 28, 1997, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1997, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Onamia, MN | 4 inch branches down. Outdoor furniture blown around. |
| Jun 28, 2:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Isle, MN | Hail pelted Scenic Bay resort launch about 1 mile from shore on Lake Mille Lacs. Strong winds accompanied the hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
206
WUUS1 KMSP 281918 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC095-097-282000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
219 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
MILLE LACS COUNTY - CENTRAL MINNESOTA
EASTERN MORRISON COUNTY - CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
PIERZ
HILLMAN
ONAMIA
MILACA
* AT 213 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS
FROM JUST EAST OF LITTLE FALLS TO 10 MILES WEST OF ST CLOUD. THE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 30 MPH.
AT 210 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS IN RURAL NORTHERN
MORRISON COUNTY. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE
A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
MILLER
&The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 5:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 8:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 31 min |
| Jun 28, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 55 min |
| Jun 28, 10:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 10:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 39 min |
| Jun 28, 11:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 39 min |
| Jun 28, 12:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns, Todd | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 53 min |
| Jun 28, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Wright | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 55 min |
| Jun 28, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec | 54 min |
| Jun 28, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Watonwan | 53 min |
| Jun 28, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Waseca | 35 min |
| Jun 28, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin | 30 min |
| Jun 28, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 58 min |
| Jun 28, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 53 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.