Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 3:40 PM EDT for Albany County, New York. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1998, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Albany County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:48 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Berne, NY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
591 WUUS1 KALB 291937 RRA SVRALB NYC001-292045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 340 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALBANY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 340 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO ALBANY COUNTY. THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE. * THE STRONGEST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... ALTAMONT AT 350 PM VOORHEESVILLE AT 355 PM WESTMERE AT 400 PM DELMAR AT 400 PM ALBANY AT 405 PM IF YOU LIVE IN THESE AREAS BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. |42.722 74.230 |42.679 74.012 |42.636 73.794 |42.593 73.576 |42.550 73.358 BLAES /NWSFO ALY
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 11:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
CTZ001-MAZ001-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013- 014-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1136 AM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS EASTERN NEW YORK AND ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON... A WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES THIS AFTERNOON WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS IT SWEEPS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED ACROSS WESTERN NEW YORK. THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REACH THE ADIRONDACKS AND WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY BETWEEN ABOUT 100 AND 300 PM AND MOVE QUICKLY EASTWARD REACHING THE HUDSON VALLEY AND EXTREME WESTERN NEW ENGLAND BETWEEN 300 AND 600 PM. IT APPEARS THAT THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS... DARKENING SKIES... LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCALf RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BLAES /NWSFO ALY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 74 min |
| May 29, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton | 60 min |
| May 29, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 70 min |
| May 29, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 65 min |
| May 29, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Schenectady | 60 min |
| May 29, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 65 min |
| May 29, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene, Rensselaer | 58 min |
| May 29, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 25 min |
| May 29, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 60 min |
| May 29, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 70 min |
| May 29, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 80 min |
| May 29, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.