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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Albany, NY

June 25, 1998Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 10:33 PM EDT for Bennington County, Vermont. It was in force for 52 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, 10:33 PM EDT (02:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1998, 11:25 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Bennington County, VT

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 10:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Dorset, VT	A severe thunderstorm downed trees at Dorset in Bennington County.

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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
848 PM EDT THU JUN 25 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    BLUE MTN                  NY   WIND DAMAGE
06/25/98   HAMILTON                       TREE DOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 25, 9:49 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton	50 min
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
Jun 26, 4:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Bennington	65 min
Jun 26, 4:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Windham	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 1998 Every 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.