Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings / 1997
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, July 1997
32 tornado warnings in July 1997. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in July 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 32
- Busiest day
- July 1, 19978 tornado warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville | 43 min |
| Jul 1, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 38 min |
| Jul 1, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 14 min |
| Jul 1, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Wright | 32 min |
| Jul 1, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 36 min |
| Jul 1, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Wright | 35 min |
| Jul 1, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka | 29 min |
| Jul 1, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Pine | 61 min |
| Jul 1, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville, Yellow Medicine | 27 min |
| Jul 1, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Pine | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Renville | 29 min |
| Jul 1, 10:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 43 min |
| Jul 12, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Scott, Sibley | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pennington | 28 min |
| Jul 20, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 65 min |
| Jul 20, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Winona | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Houston | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Winona | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Mower | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 1:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 32 min |
| Jul 25, 2:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville | 32 min |
| Jul 25, 2:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod | 34 min |
| Jul 26, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clay | 28 min |
| Jul 26, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 30 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Renville County4
- Polk County4
- Olmsted County3
- Kandiyohi County2
- Wright County2
- Meeker County2
- Pine County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Dodge County2
- Winona County2
- Chippewa County1
- Anoka County1
- Isanti County1
- Hubbard County1
- Nicollet County1
- Scott County1
- Sibley County1
- Pennington County1
- Houston County1
- Fillmore County1
- Mower County1
- McLeod County1
- Clay County1
- Pipestone 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. Rebuilt daily.