Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1998, 6:35 PM EDT for Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 70 min. 15 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 30, 1998, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1998, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dutchess County, NY, Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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 30, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellenville, NY | |
| Jun 30, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Marlboro, NY | |
| Jun 30, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Plattekill, NY | |
| Jun 30, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardiner, NY | |
| Jun 30, 6:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ardonia, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:05 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Fishkill, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Fishkill, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Wappingers Falls, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wappingers Falls, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Stormville, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Whaley Lake, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Poughkeepsie, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Holmes, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Holmes, NY | |
| Jun 30, 7:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Poughkeepsie, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
244 WUUS1 KALB 302237 RRA SVRALB NYC111-027-302345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 635 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ULSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK DUTCHESS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 635 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL ULSTER COUNTY SOUTH OF KERHONKSON MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTH OF KERHONKSON AT 640 PM 5 MILES SOUTH OF NEW PALTZ AT 650 PM CLINTONDALE AT 700 PM HIGHLAND AT 710 PM FAIRVIEW AT 715 PM PLEASANT VALLEY AT 720 PM MILLBROOK AT 735 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 62 min |
| Jun 30, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 65 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.