Tornado Warning 39, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 26, 1998, 10:03 PM CDT (03:03 UTC)

Expired

Jun 26, 1998, 10:45 PM CDT

In force

42 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Benton County, MN, Stearns County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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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TTAA00 KMSP 270303 RRA
TORMSP
MNC009-145-270345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1003 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998

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

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1001 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE
  TORNADO AROUND SARTELL...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF ST CLOUD.  THE STORM
  WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.  THERE HAVE BEEN MANY REPORTS OF
  FUNNEL CLOUDS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ST STEPHEN
    RICE
    SARTELL
    WATAB

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON T0HE LOWEST FLOOR!

TDK

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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.