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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Albany, NY

June 26, 1998Montgomery County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 7:13 PM EDT for Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 47 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, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Montgomery County, NY

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 26, 7:38 PM EDTThunderstorm WindFonda, NY
Jun 26, 7:50 PM EDTThunderstorm WindSt Johnsville, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 261 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

849 
WUUS1 KALB 262315 RRA
SVRALB
NYC057-270000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
713 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MONTGOMERY  COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL  800 PM EDT

* AT  710 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF ST. JOHNSVILLE MOVING
  EAST ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  5 MILES NORTH OF NELLISTON AT  715 PM
  JOHNSTOWN AT  730 PM
  FONDA AT  735 PM
  TRIBES HILL AT  745 PM
  FORT JOHNSON AT  750 PM

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT
OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL...AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

|43.007  74.576 |42.988  74.455 |42.969  74.333 |42.950  74.212
|42.931  74.091

HTS

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, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton62 min

Nearby

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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.