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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN

March 29, 1998McLeod County, Meeker County, Wright County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1998, 2:43 PM CST for McLeod County, Meeker County, Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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: Mar 29, 1998, 2:43 PM CST (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 1998, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Wright County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 29, 3:25 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Monticello, MN

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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

279 
WUUS1 KMSP 292046 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC085-093-171-292115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
243 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998


* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  MCLEOD COUNTY - CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SOUTHERN MEEKER COUNTY - CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SOUTHERN WRIGHT COUNTY - CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    HUTCHINSON
    DASSEL
    COKATO
    HOWARD LAKE

* AT 243 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED CLUSTER OF SEVERE STORMS
  WITH LARGE HAIL FROM HUTCHINSON TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HUTCHINSON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS...WITH LARGE HAIL.  STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

MILLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 2:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Nicollet, Sibley	48 min
Mar 29, 2:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	48 min
Mar 29, 2:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver	48 min
Mar 29, 2:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Scott	38 min
Mar 29, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Freeborn	35 min
Mar 29, 3:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	33 min
Mar 29, 3:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey	63 min
Mar 29, 3:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka	63 min
Mar 29, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Sherburne	42 min
Mar 29, 3:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn, Steele	37 min
Mar 29, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Washington	63 min
Mar 29, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	63 min
Mar 29, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Sibley	36 min
Mar 29, 3:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago, Isanti	47 min
Mar 29, 4:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Brown, Watonwan	64 min
Mar 29, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Scott	47 min
Mar 29, 4:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Nicollet	59 min
Mar 29, 5:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	52 min
Mar 29, 5:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Nicollet	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.