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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 18, 1998Stevens County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1998, 8:12 PM CDT for Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 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 18, 1998, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Stevens County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1998-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 479 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1998-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

977 
WUUS1 KMSP 190114 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC149-190200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
812 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS
ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STEVENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 806 PM CDT...DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN CHOKIO...ABOUT
  15 MILES WEST OF MORRIS.  ANOTHER STORM HAD ALSO DEVELOPED
  10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MORRIS.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ALBERTA
    MORRIS
    DONNELY
    HANCOCK

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH LARGE HAIL.  STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.


TDK


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The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRenville47 min
Jun 18, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown64 min
Jun 18, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker, Renville64 min
Jun 18, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Wright46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.