Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 4:32 PM EDT for Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 43 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 29, 1998, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 29, 5:05 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Charleston, 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
682 WUUS1 KALB 292034 RRA SVRALB NYC057-292115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 432 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 432 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT IS LIKELY PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL JUST WEST OF FORT PLAIN MOVING SOUTHEAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FORT PLAIN AT 435 PM NELLISTON AT 435 PM PALATINE BRIDGE AT 440 PM CANAJOHARIE AT 445 PM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FULTONVILLE AT 455 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. |42.942 74.659 |42.902 74.529 |42.861 74.399 |42.820 74.269 |42.780 74.140
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 29, 10:59 AM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP G 1059AM MON JUN 29 1998 GCOL WLSR APTS 06486 FILE 28 TOWN OF COLONIE NY0015300 JUN 29-98 TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROAD CONDITION REPORT FOR DATE: 06/29/98 TIME: 10-58AM RT9 FROM OSBORNE RD TO TURNER LA IS NOW OPEN TO ALL TRAFFIC POWER IS STILL OUT IN THE AREA AFFECTING SOME TRAFFIC LIGHTS AUTH LT MICHAEL N GERACI OPER - LEACH,BRIAN R 1059
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schenectady, Schoharie | 55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.