Tornado, Yellow Medicine
- When
- July 25, 12:50 AM CST
- Where
- Yellow Medicine County, 3 mi E of Wood Lake
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.650, -95.480
Shed damage. Trees uprooted.
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 25, 1997
4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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 radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 153 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:50 UTC.
Event by event
4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Redwood
- When
- July 25, 1:15 AM CST
- Where
- Redwood County, Milroy
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.420, -95.550
Grain bin rolled over. Estimated windspeed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Sibley
- When
- July 25, 1:40 AM CST
- Where
- Sibley County, Gaylord
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.550, -94.220
Garage blown down. Garage was under construction. Estimated windspeed.
Thunderstorm Wind, McLeod
- When
- July 25, 1:54 AM CST
- Where
- McLeod County, Brownton
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.730, -94.350
Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
Tornado, McLeod
- When
- July 25, 1:57 AM CST
- Where
- McLeod County, 1 mi NW of Brownton
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.750, -94.370
Tree damage.
Thunderstorm Wind, McLeod
- When
- July 25, 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- McLeod County, 4 mi N of Glencoe
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 44.820, -94.150
Shed damaged. Estimated windspeed.
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.
- 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
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, 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
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 1997Warnings 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: 5615555, 5615557, 5615558, 5615559, 5615556, 5615560.