Tornado Warning 32, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 26, 1998, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)

Expired

Jun 26, 1998, 8:55 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties McLeod County, MN, Sibley County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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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WFUS1 KMSP 270106 RRA
TORMSP
MNC085-143-270155-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
807 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  WESTERN SIBLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 855 PM CDT

* AT 805 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR
  WINTHOP OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANKATO.  THE STORM WAS MOVING
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF
  FUNNEL CLOUDS FROM THIS STORM.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    NEW AUBURN
    BROWNTON
    GLENCOE
    SUMTER

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

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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.