Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 40, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1998, 4:09 PM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. 5 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 27, 1998, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:09 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Jackson, MN | |
| Jun 27, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lakefield, MN | |
| Jun 27, 4:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Jackson, MN | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines. |
| Jun 27, 4:32 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Jackson, MN | |
| Jun 27, 4:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lakefield, 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 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 272109 RRA TORFSD MNC063-272145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 409 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 408 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 26 MILES EAST OF WORTHINGTON OR 7 MILES WEST OF ALPHA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BERGEN AROUND 410 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. REM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson | 31 min |
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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.