Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 601
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 13, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT for 33 counties in Minnesota; 10 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pine County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Winona County, MN, Wright County, MN, Barron County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 89 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.
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca | 56 min |
| Jul 13, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 52 min |
| Jul 13, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Scott, Sibley | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 58 min |
| Jul 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Ramsey, Washington | 58 min |
| Jul 13, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele, Waseca | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin | 44 min |
| Jul 13, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Mower | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 49 min |
| Jul 13, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett, Washburn | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 284 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
- 832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Chippewa, Clark, Eau Claire, Jackson, Juneau and 16 more | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.