Severe Thunderstorm Warning 250, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 27, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)

Expired

Jun 27, 1998, 6:05 PM CDT

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

County Martin County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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.

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TTAA00 KMSP 272201
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MNC091-272305-

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

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 605 PM CDT

* AT AT 455 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE STORMS FROM 10
  MILES NORTHEAST OF FAIRMONT TO 10 MILES WEST OF JACKSON.  THE
  STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    FAIRMONT
    TRIMONT
    TRUMAN
    SHERBURNE
    WELCOME

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS.  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.