Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 526
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 1997, 6:30 PM EDT for 26 counties in New York; 11 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1997, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1997, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Allegany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Madison County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Wayne County, NY, Wyoming County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Warren County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 67 min |
| Jun 25, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 20 min |
| Jun 25, 7:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 76 min |
| Jun 25, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 76 min |
| Jun 25, 7:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Warren | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 8:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 117 min |
| Jun 25, 8:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | McKean | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter, Tioga | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1997
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.