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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 344, NWS Twin Cities, MN

October 16, 1998Anoka County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 1998, 6:54 AM CDT for Anoka County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 1998, 6:54 AM CDT (11:54 UTC)
Expired
Oct 16, 1998, 7:25 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Anoka County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1998-10-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1998-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 705 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
705 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
879 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 7:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.