Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 26, 1998, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)

Expired

Jun 26, 1998, 8:40 PM CDT

In force

66 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Benton County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

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.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 270034 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC009-141-145-270140-

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

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SHERBURNE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  EASTERN STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 840 PM CDT

* AT 730 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS NEAR KIMBALL OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST
  CLOUD.  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ST CLOUD
    CLEARWATER
    ROCKVILLE
    CLEAR LAKE
    SAUK RAPIDS
    FOLEY

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.


BAP

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.