Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 5:05 PM EDT for Schenectady County, Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 55 min. 3 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 29, 1998, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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, 5:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Sloansville, NY | |
| Jun 29, 5:28 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cobleskill, NY | |
| Jun 29, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Duanesburg, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 34 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.
998 WUUS1 KALB 292115 RRA SVRALB NYC095-093-292200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 505 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST SCHOHARIE COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK WESTERN SCHENECTADY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 505 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS FAR SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR THE SCHOHARIE CREEK MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE AND DAMAGING HAIL. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ESPERANCE AT 520 PM DELANSON AT 525 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. |42.802 74.377 |42.754 74.264 |42.706 74.152 |42.658 74.040 |42.610 73.927
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 43 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.