Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 132
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 29, 1998, 2:00 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1998, 2:00 PM CST (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1998, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 84 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clay County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Howard County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Ida County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Monona County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Sac County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Story County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, Mower County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Winona County, MN, Burt County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Union County, SD, Buffalo County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 57 min |
| Mar 29, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Rock | 33 min |
| Mar 29, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 35 min |
| Mar 29, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 3:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FSD | Murray, Nobles, Rock | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 3:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 37 min |
| Mar 29, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Mower | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 57 min |
| Mar 29, 4:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 32 min |
| Mar 29, 4:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 59 min |
| Mar 29, 5:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pepin | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 5:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 14 min |
| Mar 29, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 52 min |
| Mar 29, 5:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 39 min |
| Mar 29, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 57 min |
| Mar 29, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 6:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 53 min |
| Mar 29, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston, Winona | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 33 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Iowa, 1998Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 1998Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 1998Every tornado watch in 1998
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.