Tornado Warning 47, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 27, 1998, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)

Expired

Jun 27, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT

In force

33 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

County Freeborn County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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.

476 
WFUS1 KMSP 272356 RRA
TORMSP
MNC047-280030-

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

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 655 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TWO POSSIBLE TORNADOS...
ONE 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALBERT LEA...NEAR MYRTLE...AND THE
OTHER 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALBERT LEA...NEAR MAPLE ISLAND..
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    MYRTLE
    OAKLAND
    MOSCOW
    MAPLE ISLAND
    NEWRY
    CORNING

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

NAISTAT

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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.