Tornado Warning 45, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 27, 1998, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)

Expired

Jun 27, 1998, 7:20 PM CDT

In force

54 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Dakota County, MN, Rice County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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.

408 
WFUS1 KMSP 272335 RRA
TORMSP
MNC037-131-280015-

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

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  NORTHERN RICE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 720 PM CDT

* AT 625 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR
  LONSDALE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF FARIBAULT.  THE STORM
  WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    LITTLE CHICAGO
    WEBSTER
    CASTLE ROCK
    HAMPTON
    VERMILLION
    MEASVILLE

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

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.