Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 7, 1997Rice County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1997, 1:49 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report 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 7, 1997, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1997, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Rice County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 7, 1:55 PM CDTHail 0.75Northfield, MN

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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 60 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1997-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1997-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 071852 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC131-071930-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
149 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  RICE COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    NORTHFIELD
    DUNDAS
    FARIBAULT

* AT 145 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH LARGE HAIL
  30 MILES SOUTH OF ST PAUL...NEAR NORTHFILD.  THE SnTORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH LARGE HAIL.  STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.


WH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHennepin45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.