Tornado, Nobles
- When
- March 29, 3:45 PM CST to 3:55 PM CST
- Where
- Nobles County, 3 mi NE of St Killian
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 43.820, -95.830
Tornado in Minnesota, March 29, 1998
A tornado damaged trees and destroyed old farm buildings.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $100,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
A tornado damaged trees and destroyed old farm buildings.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:43 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
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- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, March 29, 1998
- Hail in Minnesota, March 29, 1998
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 1998Warnings in Minnesota, March 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: 5632283.