Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 18, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT for Kanabec County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 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
- Sep 18, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kanabec County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Woodland, MN | 2 homes severely damaged. Large barn destroyed. Numerous trees and power lines down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 477 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 490 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
676
WFUS1 KMSP 182331 RRA
TORMSP
MNC065-190030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
630 PM CDT THU SEP 18 1997
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
NORTHERN KANABEC COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
WOODLAND
WARMAN
KROSCHELL
SNAKE RIVER STATE FOREST
* AT 628 PM CDT SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ONE
MILE EAST OF ONAMIA...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRAINERD.
THE TORNADO WAS REPORTED AS 1/4 MILE WIDE. IT WAS MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND TAKE SHELTER NOW
TDK
&The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 32 min |
| Sep 18, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 51 min |
| Sep 18, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 67 min |
| Sep 18, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 26 min |
| Sep 18, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs, Morrison | 52 min |
| Sep 18, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 66 min |
| Sep 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 41 min |
| Sep 18, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 33 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.