Thunderstorm Wind, Lyon
- When
- July 25, 12:25 AM CST
- Where
- Lyon County, Cottonwood
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 44.620, -95.670
Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 25, 1997
Thunderstorm winds blew over a 70 foot mobile home and moved another mobile home off its foundation. The winds also uprooted large trees and caused other tree damage.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Thunderstorm winds blew over a 70 foot mobile home and moved another mobile home off its foundation. The winds also uprooted large trees and caused other tree damage.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:25 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Wisconsin, July 25, 1997
- Heat in Iowa, July 25 to 27, 1997
- Heat in Illinois, July 25 to 28, 1997
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 25, 1997
- Heat in Kentucky, July 25 to 28, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 25, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 25, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 25 to 26, 1997
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, July 25, 1997
- Heat in Illinois, July 25 to 27, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 25, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 25, 1997
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, July 1997
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: 5611407.