Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1998, 1:08 PM CDT for Pine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1998, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1998, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pine County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
084 WFUS1 KDLH 251809 RRA TORDLH MNC115-251845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 108 PM CDT THU JUN 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PINE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 104 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICALS INDICATED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF FREISLAND OR 5 MILES NORTH OF HINCKLEY... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SANDSTONE 112 PM CDT FINLAYSON BY 115 PM CDT BRUNO 145 PM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR SHIMON/TOMALAK
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 25, 11:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 11:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
AREA FORECST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1045 AM CDT THU JUN 25 1998 .ISSUED UPDATES FOR ALL MINNESOTA ZNS ERLR THS AM .WILL REWORD NW WISCONSIN ZNS W/V IMGS SHW RTHR POT VORT MAX MOVG THRU CNTRL MN WITH KDLH 88D SHWG ASSC BND OF SHRA AND TSRA ALG THE FNT AND NRN AXIS MOVG SLOWLY E. VI IMGS SHW RTHR EXTNSIVE CLD DECK OVR MN HELPG TO KEEP TMPS AT BAY FOR THE MOMENT WHL PT CLDY CONDS ALLWG NW WI TO WRM UP. COVERED LCL DENSE FOG NR THE LAKE WITH NOW'S. NEW ETA SMLR TO RUC IN MOVG VORT MAX OVR W CNTRL MN NE INTO WRN LAKE SUPR BY 00Z. WITH H3 DIV NOT AS IMPRSV AS ERLR MDLS...FEEL AVAL MSTR AND DYNMS STRG ENGH FOR BND OF SHRA AND TSRA SPRDG SLOWLY EWD INTO NW WI BY MID PM. MDLS SHW BEST INSTBILTY S AND E OF KDLH CWA...HWVR WILL STILL INDTCT SLGT THRT OF SVR THRU PM. TOMALAK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 10:08 AM CDT, 3 hours before
MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-262000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1000 AM CST THU JUN 25 1998 ...SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OVER A PORTION OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THIS AREA IS GENERALLY EXTENDS EASTWARD FROM A NORTHERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY TO PINE COUNTY LINE. THREAT... HAIL TO 1 INCH SIZE AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH. DISCUSSION... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN WISCONSIN BY LATE AFTERNOON. THIS SYSTEM WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES EASTWARD DURING THE DAY. WHILE MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA... THE COMBINATION OF A RATHER POTENT DISTURBANCE WITH AMPLE MOISTURE MAY BE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER GROUPS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. TOMALAK
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 10:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-262000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 930 AM CST THU JUN 25 1998 .THREAT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN ALL OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND ALL OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN TONIGHT. DISCUSSION... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE CENTRAL DAKOTAS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD TODAY AS A WARM FRONT IN IOWA SURGES NORTHWARD. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ERUPT NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT LATER THIS EVENING AS WARM AND HUMID AIR AT THE SURFACE INTERACTS WITH THE WARM FRONT. THE ONLY LIMITING FACTOR WILL BE VERY WARM AIR IN THE MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WHICH MAY SUPPRESS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS COMPLETELY OVERNIGHT. IF STORMS DEVELOP...THEY COULD BECOME SEVERE IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BY LATE EVENING. DAP
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 11:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-262000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1000 AM CST THU JUN 25 1998 ...SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OVER A PORTION OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THIS AREA IS GENERALLY EXTENDS EASTWARD FROM A NORTHERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY TO PINE COUNTY LINE. THREAT... HAIL TO 1 INCH SIZE AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH. DISCUSSION... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN WISCONSIN BY LATE AFTERNOON. THIS SYSTEM WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES EASTWARD DURING THE DAY. WHILE MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA... THE COMBINATION OF A RATHER POTENT DISTURBANCE WITH AMPLE MOISTURE MAY BE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER GROUPS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. TOMALAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.