MPR’s Bill Wareham reports that local officials expect cleanup from the July 1st storm to last weeks, as several of the city's schools sustained heavy damage. One of the most damaged was Edison High School in Northeast community of Minneapolis.
On the afternoon of July 1, 1997, a complex of severe thunderstorms moved out of South Dakota, intensified, and caused significant damage from tornadoes, straight-line winds, and excessive rainfall— from western and central Minnesota through the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area.