Tornado, Polk
- When
- July 13, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 120 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 48.020, -96.620
Tornadoes in Minnesota, July 13, 1977
5 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- $575,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Polk
- When
- July 13, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 48.100, -97.100
Tornado, Polk
- When
- July 13, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2.3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 47.670, -96.900
Tornado, Kittson
- When
- July 13, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Kittson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 48.750, -96.970
Tornado, Polk
- When
- July 13, 7:43 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 48.020, -96.670
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 13, 1977
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 13, 1977
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, July 13, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 13, 1977
- Hail in Kentucky, July 13, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 13, 1977
- Damaging Wind in New York, July 13, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, July 13, 1977
- Hail in West Virginia, July 13, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 13, 1977
- Hail in South Dakota, July 13, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 13, 1977
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10053018, 10053019, 10053020, 10053021, 10053022.