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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN

March 29, 1998Pepin County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 1998, 5:02 PM CST for Pepin County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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: Mar 29, 1998, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 1998, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Pepin County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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
Mar 29, 5:23 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Durand, WI
Mar 29, 5:35 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Durand, WI	Barn blown down. Estimated windspeed.

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
Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 29, 2:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 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 292306
TORMSP
WIC091-292330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
502 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998


* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  PEPIN COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    PEPIN
    PORCUPINE
    DURAND

* AT 502 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES
  WEST OF PEPIN..OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RED WING..  THE
  POSSIBLE TORNADO HWAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL
SIZE HAIL AS WELL. SEEK SHELTER IN THE BASEMENT OR ON LOWEST FLOOR
IN AN INTERIOR ROOM!

MILLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pierce	63 min
Mar 29, 3:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Polk, Saint Croix	56 min
Mar 29, 4:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dunn	46 min
Mar 29, 4:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Dunn	41 min
Mar 29, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron, Chippewa, Rusk	62 min
Mar 29, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Polk	37 min
Mar 29, 5:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Dunn	47 min
Mar 29, 5:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Eau Claire	39 min
Mar 29, 5:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa	65 min
Mar 29, 5:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dunn, Pepin, Pierce	47 min

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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.