Tornado Warning 41, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 27, 1998, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)

Expired

Jun 27, 1998, 6:35 PM CDT

In force

34 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Waseca County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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 272301 RRA
TORMSP
MNC043-047-161-272335-

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

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  WESTERN FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SOUTHERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 635 PM CDT

* AT 558 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 2
  MILES WEST OF WELLS...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST TO NORTHWEST OF
  ALBERT LEA.  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    WELLS
    NEW RICHLAND
    FREEBORN
    HARTLAND
    MATAWAN

IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

NAISTAT

Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998

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.