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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1998, 11:29 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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
- May 30, 1998, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Freeborn County, MN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
931
WUUS1 KMSP 310431 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC047-310500-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1129 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS
ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
* AT AT 1125 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS JUST WEST OF ALBERT LEA.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
ALBERT LEA
HAYWARD
MYTRLE
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES.
JPRWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
MNZ047-048-310300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 810 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 468 CANCELED FOR A SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR STEVENS AND POPE COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THESE COUNTIES. THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE UNTIL 10 PM. BAP
Special weather statement, May 30, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
MNZ047-048-310300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 810 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 468 CANCELED FOR A SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR STEVENS AND POPE COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THESE COUNTIES. THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE UNTIL 10 PM. BAP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Swift | 55 min |
| May 30, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 57 min |
| May 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 45 min |
| May 30, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 56 min |
| May 30, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 45 min |
| May 30, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 62 min |
| May 30, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Yellow Medicine | 48 min |
| May 30, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 44 min |
| May 30, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 64 min |
| May 30, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 51 min |
| May 30, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison | 44 min |
| May 30, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville, Stearns | 61 min |
| May 30, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 61 min |
| May 30, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 34 min |
| May 30, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 59 min |
| May 30, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Wright | 58 min |
| May 30, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 58 min |
| May 30, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Isanti | 61 min |
| May 30, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 37 min |
| May 30, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 44 min |
| May 30, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Scott | 51 min |
| May 30, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 46 min |
| May 30, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 46 min |
| May 30, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele, Waseca | 40 min |
| May 30, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.