Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 min. 3 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, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Burr, MN | |
| Jun 26, 9:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Madison, MN | |
| Jun 26, 9:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Canby, MN | Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed. |
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 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 469 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 26.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
792
WUUS1 KMSP 270202 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC073-173-270300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
900 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS
ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT AT 858 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS STORMS WERE ALONG THE SOUTH
DAKOTA/MINNESOTA BORDER FROM ORTONVILLE 15 MILES WEST OF CANBY OR
45 MILES SOUTHWEST ON MONTEVIDEO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
CANBY
PROVIDENCE
ST LEO
MADISON
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES.
CWSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Sibley | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns, Todd | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 10:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Renville | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Washington | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Le Sueur, Rice | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 12:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Le Sueur, Scott | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Watonwan | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Waseca | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 33 min |
Nearby
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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.