Tornado, Roseau
- When
- June 27, 3:35 PM CST to 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Roseau County, Greenbush to 10 mi E of Greenbush
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 11 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 48.800, -96.030
Tornado in Minnesota, June 27, 1997
A tornado damaged 2 homes, several farm buildings, and 2 steel grain bins as it struck 10 miles north and 2 miles east of Greenbush. One man barely made it out of his trailer home before the tornado struck.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $250,000
- 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 FGF wrote it up.
A tornado damaged 2 homes, several farm buildings, and 2 steel grain bins as it struck 10 miles north and 2 miles east of Greenbush. One man barely made it out of his trailer home before the tornado struck. As the tornado travelled between the 2 homes, it came close to a tractor plowing a field. A man in the tractor had glass blown into his eyes as the glass tractor cab shattered. A third home, 3 miles east and 2 miles north of Greenbush, was shifted off its foundation as the tornado passed. The tornado crossed highway 11, damaging a fourth home located 3 miles east of Greenbush, before dissipating.
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 171 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:33 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
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- High Surf in Hawaii, June 27 to 29, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, June 27, 1997
- Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, June 27, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, June 27, 1997
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 1997Warnings in Minnesota, June 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: 5603502.