Alert archive / Minnesota / 1997
Weather alerts in Minnesota, October 1997
34 weather alerts in October 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in October 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 34
- Warnings
- 30
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- October 9, 199722 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 35 min |
| Oct 6, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 62 min |
| Oct 6, 5:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 54 min |
| Oct 6, 6:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 62 min |
| Oct 6, 7:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 41 min |
| Oct 8, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 36 min |
| Oct 8, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 16 min |
| Oct 8, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 12 min |
| Oct 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 35 min |
| Oct 8, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 49 min |
| Oct 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown and 48 more | 6 hr |
| 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, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca | 59 min |
| Oct 8, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 60 min |
| Oct 8, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 53 min |
| Oct 8, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Kanabec, Koochiching, Lake and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 47 min |
| Oct 8, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 63 min |
| Oct 9, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca | 40 min |
| Oct 9, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 32 min |
| Oct 9, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine, Saint Louis | 60 min |
| Oct 11, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Itasca | 61 min |
| Oct 11, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Traverse | 6 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 30 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Polk County7
- Renville County5
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Norman County4
- Itasca County4
- Chippewa County3
- Sibley County3
- Marshall County3
- Beltrami County3
- Clearwater County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Hubbard County3
- Redwood County3
- Aitkin County3
- McLeod County2
- Carver County2
- Cass County2
- Clay County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Kittson County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lyon County2
- Nicollet County2
- Pennington County2
- Red Lake County2
- Roseau County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Traverse County2
- Wilkin County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Carlton County2
- Koochiching County2
- Pine County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Scott County1
- Dakota County1
- Becker County1
- Benton County1
25 more counties
- Big Stone County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Douglas County1
- Faribault County1
- Grant County1
- Jackson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Morrison County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pope County1
- Stearns County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
- Lake County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.