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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 17, 1997Stevens County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1997, 3:48 PM CDT for Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 1997, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Stevens County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1997-06-17Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1997-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 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.

932 
WFUS1 KMSP 172050 RRA
TORMSP
MNC149-172115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
348 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  STEVENS COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    MORRIS
    HANCOCK

* AT 345 PM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR
  DONNELLY...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA.  THE STORM
  WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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

HAMEN
 

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.