Tornado Warning 40, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 27, 1998, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)

Expired

Jun 27, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT

In force

34 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Faribault County, MN, Martin County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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.

113 
WFUS1 KMSP 272236 RRA
TORMSP
MNC043-091-272310-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
536 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1998

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 610 PM CDT

* AT AT 533 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  GRANADA OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF FAIRMONT.  THE STORM WAS MOVING
  EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    GRANADA
    HUNTLEY
    WINNEBAGO
    BLUE EARTH
    DELAVAN
    EASTON

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

TDK/LRS


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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.