Hail, Clay
- When
- July 26, 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County, Hawley
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 46.880, -96.320
Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, July 26, 1997
2 hail, 1 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
- 3
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 Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:10 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Clay
- When
- July 26, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County, 5 mi W of Felton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 47.080, -96.620
Tornado, Clay
- When
- July 26, 3:22 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County, 17 mi NE of Fargo
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 47.030, -96.530
Rapid convection produced a brief tornado touchdown.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
- Heat in Illinois, July 26 to 27, 1997
- Heat in Missouri, July 26 to 28, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, July 26 to 27, 1997
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Wisconsin, July 26, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Michigan, July 26, 1997
- Tornado in Iowa, July 26, 1997
- Flash Flood in Iowa, July 26, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 26, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 26, 1997
- Tornado in Ohio, July 26, 1997
- Heat in Indiana, July 26 to 27, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, July 26, 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: 5606780, 5606779, 5606781.