Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 33, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1998, 10:38 PM CDT for Dodge County, Olmsted County, Minnesota. It was in force for 62 min. 3 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 26, 1998, 10:38 PM CDT (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 11:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, MN, Olmsted County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 10:49 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Oronoco, MN | |
| Jun 26, 10:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Oronoco, MN | |
| Jun 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Dover, 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 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 469 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 26.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
255 WFUS1 KLSE 270339 TORLSE MNC039-109-270440- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1038 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTH EAST DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA NORTHERN OLMSTED COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1140 PM CDT * AT 1037 PM CDT ...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR BERNE OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GENOA AT 1045 PM ORONOCO AT 11 PM GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR KING/NELSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 74 min |
| Jun 26, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 12:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Winona | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mower | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 1:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 9 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Mower | 67 min |
| Jun 27, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mower | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Olmsted | 62 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.