Tornado, Lyon
- When
- May 7, 9:53 PM CST to 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Lyon County, 2 mi N of Garvin
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.250, -95.767
A short lived tornado caused no reported damage.
Tornado in Minnesota, May 7, 2000
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:50 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
- Flash Flood in Missouri, May 7, 2000
- Hail in Nebraska, May 7, 2000
- Flash Flood in Missouri, May 7, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 7, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 7, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 7 to 8, 2000
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 7 to 8, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Vermont, May 7, 2000
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 7, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Maine, May 7, 2000
- Hail in Nebraska, May 7, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 7, 2000
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 2000Warnings in Minnesota, May 2000
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: 5146199.