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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 1, 1997Anoka County, Isanti County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1997, 7:26 PM CDT for Anoka County, Isanti County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min. 8 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 1, 1997, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Anoka County, MN, Isanti County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 1, 7:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 80Ramsey, MNGas station roof damaged.
Jul 1, 7:50 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 80Coon Rapids, MN200 trees blown down on Bunker Hills golf course. 20 corporate tents in preparation for upcoming senior PGA event destroyed. Roof damage also reported.
Jul 1, 7:52 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 65Fridley, MNLarge trees down. Estimated windspeed.
Jul 1, 7:52 PM CDTTornado F1St Francis, MNTouchdown 3 miles west of downtown St. Francis. Barn collapse.
Jul 1, 7:55 PM CDTTornado F1Bradford, MNTouchdown 3 miles west of downtown St Francis. Barn collapse.
Jul 1, 7:55 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 85Anoka, MNThousands of trees uprooted and power poles blown down . Headstones blown over in cemetary. Roof ripped off apartment building. Estimated windspeed.
Jul 1, 8:02 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 58Anoka Co Blaine Arpt, MNTrees uprooted. One tree fell onto a truck.
Jul 1, 8:40 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Braham, MNCar blown into ditch. Trees 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 1, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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 00:00Z on 1997-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1759 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 303 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
303 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
455 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.3
Supercell composite
21.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 020028 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC003-059-123-020130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
726 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  ANOKA COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  ISANTI COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  RAMSEY COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    CAMBRIDGE
    ANOKA
    ST. PAUL

* AT 725 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS FROM
  THE WESTERN SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES TO 15 MILES EAST OF ST.
  CLOUD.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS...WITH DAMAGING WINDS.  STAY INDOORS
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNAD O WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES.

HOWIESON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRamsey64 min
Jul 1, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod, Wright42 min
Jul 1, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Sibley37 min
Jul 1, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHennepin37 min
Jul 1, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDakota, Scott64 min
Jul 1, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka29 min
Jul 1, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChisago, Washington50 min
Jul 1, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti46 min
Jul 1, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue57 min
Jul 1, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDakota34 min
Jul 1, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRenville, Yellow Medicine27 min
Jul 1, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue28 min
Jul 1, 9:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Renville29 min
Jul 1, 10:17 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMeeker43 min
Jul 1, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWashington35 min
Jul 1, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRice32 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.