Tornado Warning 33, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 26, 1998, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)

Expired

Jun 26, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Le Sueur County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 270112 RRA
TORMSP
MNC079-131-139-270200-

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

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL
  MINNESOTA
  NORTHWESTERN RICE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 810 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY OR 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANKATO.
  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 25 TO 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    LE SUEUR
    MONTGOMERY
    HEIDLEBURG
 x   NEW PRAGUE
    NEW MARKET
    LONSDALE

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

BA

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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.