Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 534
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 28, 1997, 12:30 PM CDT for 39 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1997, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lyon County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:33 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.
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 35 min |
| Jun 28, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns, Todd | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 60 min |
| Jun 28, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs, Morrison | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 53 min |
| Jun 28, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Wright | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 55 min |
| Jun 28, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec | 54 min |
| Jun 28, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Watonwan | 53 min |
| Jun 28, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Waseca | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Stevens and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 28, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 11 more | 6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.