Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1998, 1:56 AM CDT for Goodhue County, Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 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
- May 28, 1998, 1:56 AM CDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1998, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Goodhue County, MN, Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:21 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Kenyon, MN | Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1846 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
782
WUUS1 KMSP 280657 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC049-131-280800-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
156 AM CDT THU MAY 28 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS
ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA
RICE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 300 AM CDT
* AT 150 AM...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A SEVERE STORM WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS NEAR NEW TRIER OR...15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF RED WING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
NORTHFIELD
DENNISON
VASA
CANNON FALLS
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
CARLYONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 32 min |
| May 27, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 48 min |
| May 27, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 46 min |
| May 28, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 34 min |
| May 28, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 64 min |
| May 28, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 30 min |
| May 28, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 64 min |
| May 28, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.