Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Albany, NY

June 26, 1998Fulton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 6:53 PM EDT for Fulton County, New York. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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 26, 1998, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1998, 7:55 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Fulton County, NY

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 26, 7:10 PM EDTThunderstorm WindEphratah, NY
Jun 26, 7:55 PM EDTThunderstorm WindGloversville, 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 281 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1487 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHamilton50 min
Jun 25, 9:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren, Washington60 min
Jun 26, 2:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Hamilton, Saratoga97 min
Jun 26, 2:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren62 min
Jun 26, 3:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYHerkimer55 min
Jun 26, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYMontgomery47 min
Jun 25, 10:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBennington52 min
Jun 26, 4:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBennington65 min
Jun 26, 4:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWindham60 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.