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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 27, 1998Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1998, 7:03 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1998, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1998, 7:50 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Goodhue County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 27, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Kenyon, MN
Jun 27, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Cannon Falls, MN	Remained near Lake Byllesby.
Jun 27, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Wanamingo, MN
Jun 27, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Zumbrota, MN

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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 27, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 280003 RRA
TORMSP
MNC049-280050-

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

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 750 PM CDT

* AT 703 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES
  SOUTH OF KENYON...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RED WING.  THE
  SnTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    KENYON
    BOMBAY
    WANAMINGO
    HADER
    ZUMBROTA
    GOODHUE

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

 NAISTAT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Dakota, Rice	48 min
Jun 27, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	50 min
Jun 27, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope	64 min

Nearby

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Sources

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.