Tornado Warning 36, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 26, 1998, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)

Expired

Jun 26, 1998, 9:55 PM CDT

In force

31 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

County Stearns County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 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.

935 
WFUS1 KMSP 270225 RRA
TORMSP
MNC145-270255-

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

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 955 PM CDT

* AT AT 922 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO
  NEAR ALBANY OR 20 MILES WEST OF ST CLOUD.  THE STORM WAS MOVING
  NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ALBANY
    ST ANTHONY

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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.