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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 25, 1997McLeod County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1997, 2:56 AM CDT for McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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 25, 1997, 2:56 AM CDT (07:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1997, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County McLeod County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 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 25, 2:57 AM CDT	Tornado F0	Brownton, MN	Tree damage.
Jul 25, 3:00 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Glencoe, MN	Shed damaged. 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 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 870 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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 250756 RRA
TORMSP
MNC085-250830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
256 AM CDT FRI JUL 25 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN MCLEOD COUNTY - CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 330 AM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    BROWNTON
    BISCAY
    GLENCOE
    PLATO

* AT 255 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST
  SOUTHWEST OF BROWNTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON.
  THE pSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

TOGSTAD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	49 min
Jul 25, 1:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	32 min
Jul 25, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	46 min
Jul 25, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	48 min
Jul 25, 2:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Renville	32 min
Jul 25, 2:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Steele, Waseca	4 hr
Jul 25, 2:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley	4 hr
Jul 25, 2:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Martin, Watonwan	4 hr
Jul 25, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Sibley	62 min
Jul 25, 2:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet	61 min
Jul 25, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Scott	47 min
Jul 25, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	44 min
Jul 25, 3:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice	46 min
Jul 25, 4:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, Scott	4 hr

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.