Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 24, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1998, 9:32 PM CDT for Olmsted County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1998, 9:32 PM CDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 10:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Olmsted County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Byron, MN | |
| Jun 24, 9:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Rochester, MN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3921 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
283 WFUS1 KLSE 250233 RRA TORLSE MNC109-250335- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 932 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OLMSTED COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1035 PM CDT * AT 930 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR SALEM CORNERS OR 8 MILES WEST OF ROCHESTER... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ROCHESTER AROUND 940 PM GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR KING/DB
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Houston | 57 min |
| Jun 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 58 min |
| Jun 24, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Winona | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Winona | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Wabasha, Winona | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 55 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.