Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 744
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 8, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT for 54 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Pope County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 38 min |
| Oct 8, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 34 min |
| Oct 8, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 32 min |
| Oct 8, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 50 min |
| Oct 8, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 50 min |
| Oct 8, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 50 min |
| Oct 8, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 53 min |
| Oct 8, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 53 min |
| Oct 8, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 43 min |
| Oct 8, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard | 21 min |
| Oct 8, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard | 36 min |
| Oct 8, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 53 min |
| Oct 8, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Kanabec, Koochiching, Lake and 3 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.