Tornado, Meeker
- When
- June 30, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Meeker County, 4 mi W of Kingston
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.200, -94.400
Observed by law enforcement.
Tornado in Minnesota, June 30, 1998
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:16 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 30, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in New York, June 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 30, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, June 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 30, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, June 30, 1998
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 1998Warnings in Minnesota, June 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5659029.