Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 27, 1998, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)

Expired

Jun 27, 1998, 5:50 PM CDT

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Brown County, MN, Redwood County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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 272148 RRA
SVRMSP

MNC015-127-272250-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
448 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1998

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 550 PM CDT

* AT AT 445 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH
  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS NEAR LAMBERTON OR 25 MILES SOUTH OF
  REDWOOD FALLS.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN
  HOUR.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    LAMBERTON
    SANDBORN
    SPRINGFIELD
    CLEMENTS
    EVAN
    MORGAN

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

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

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.