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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 26, 1998Faribault County, Martin County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 12:27 PM CDT for Faribault County, Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 68 min. 4 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, 12:27 PM CDT (17:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1998, 1:35 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Faribault County, MN, Martin County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 26, 12:50 PM CDTHail 1Fairmont, MN
Jun 26, 1:05 PM CDTHail 2Guckeen, MN
Jun 26, 1:40 PM CDTHail 0.75Winnebago, MN
Jun 26, 1:40 PM CDTHail 0.75Winnebago, 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1998-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1998-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 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.

753 
WUUS1 KMSP 261732 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC043-091-261830-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1227 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  
* UNTIL 135 PM CDT

* AT 1227 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL 10 MILES EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF FAIRMONT.  THE STORM WAS
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    EAST CHAIN
    GUCKEEN
    BLUE EARTH
    FROST
    DELAVAN

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.


TDK

What 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, Jun 26, 6:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
MNZ042>045-048>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-261500-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
645 AM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS FORECAST A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE...ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL DAKOTAS THIS AFTERNOON THEN SPREAD EAST OR
NORTHEAST INTO MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
MNZ042>045-048>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-261500-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
645 AM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS FORECAST A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE...ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL DAKOTAS THIS AFTERNOON THEN SPREAD EAST OR
NORTHEAST INTO MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 11:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMartin60 min
Jun 26, 1:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Faribault63 min
Jun 26, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMeeker66 min
Jun 26, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStearns58 min
Jun 26, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Sherburne, Wright64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.