Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 26, 1998, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)

Expired

Jun 26, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

County Meeker County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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TTAA00 KMSP 270315 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC093-127-129-270415-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1015 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA
  RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1014 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS
  FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LITCHFIELD...TO 30 MILES WEST OF
  REDWOOD FALLS.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    LITCHFIELD
    COSMOS
    OLIVIA
    HECTOR
    VREDWOOD FALLS
    WABASSO

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS.  STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES.
TDK

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.