Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 8:25 PM EDT for Hamilton County, New York. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 25, 1998, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1998, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hamilton County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Mtn Lake, 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 nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 2224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 260025 RRA SVRALB NYC041-260115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 825 PM EDT THU JUN 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HAMILTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 825 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL SOUTHWEST OF INDIAN LAKE MOVING EAST ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SAGAMORE AT 830 PM LEWEY LAKE LAKE 845 PM CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD SEEK SHLETER NOW. IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR R0OOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. |43.744 74.634 |43.713 74.517 |43.681 74.400 |43.650 74.284 |43.619 74.167
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren, Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 2:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga | 97 min |
| Jun 26, 2:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 3:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.