Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 686
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 27, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT for 34 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1998, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Benton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Pope County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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.
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 60 min |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.