Another bout of heavy rains resulted in street and basement flooding. 00 inches in Henderson and Cannon Falls.
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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.
The episode as NWS MPX wrote it up.
Another bout of heavy rains resulted in street and basement flooding. Some rainfall reports included 4.1 inches at Lafayette, 4.03 inches at Stewart, 3.00 inches in Henderson and Cannon Falls. Many roads closed in the southwest part of Goodhue county. Hidden Valley campgrounds evacuated in Welch township in Goodhue County. Street flooding reported in Lonsdale, LeSueur, New Prague, Montgomery, Belle Plaine, Henderson and Kenyon. Baseball fields, local golf course and a city park flooded in Pine Island. Riverside park flooded in Wanamingo. Cannon River rose to above its banks flooding nearby fields and a local golf course. The river dropped below flood stage on Saturday the 26th.
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:00 UTC.
8 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Fields flooded causing crop damage. Over three inches of rain at Redwood Falls, 2.9 inches at Vesta.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, July 1997
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: 5615561, 5615562, 5615563, 5615564, 5615565, 5615566, 5615567, 5615568.