Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1998, 8:24 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1998, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1998, 9:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 180024 RRA SVRALB CTC005-NYC027-180125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 824 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN DUTCHESS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT * UNTIL 925 PM EDT * AT 825 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF DOVER PLAINS MOVING EAST ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DOVER PLAINS AT 825 PM KENT AT 845 PM NEW PRESTON AT 900 PM * A SECOND STORM SOUTH OF NORFOLK WILL MOVE TO NEAR WINSTEfD BY 850 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. HTS |41.706 73.583 |41.695 73.500 |41.684 73.417 |41.674 73.334 |41.663 73.250
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, Jul 17, 8:08 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
808 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0735 PM PITTSFIELD MA WIND DAMAGE
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWERLINES DOWN
0735 PM LENOX MA .8 INCH HAIL
07/17/98 B@ERKSHIRE
0748 PM LENOX MA .8 INCH HAIL
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE
0755 PM GREAT BARRINGTON MA WIND DAMAGE
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE TREES AND WIRE DOWNLocal storm report, Jul 17, 8:08 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
808 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0735 PM PITTSFIELD MA WIND DAMAGE
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWERLINES DOWN
0735 PM LENOX MA .5 INCH HAIL
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE
0748 PM LENOX MA .5 INCH HAIL
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE
0755 PM GREAT BARRINGTON MA WIND DAMAGE
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE TREES AND WIRE DOWNLocal storm report, Jul 17, 8:08 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
808 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0735 PM PITTSFIELD MA WIND DAMAGE
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWERLINES DOWN
0735 PM LENOX MA .8 INCH HAIL
07/17/98 B@ERKSHIRE
0748 PM LENOX MA .8 INCH HAIL
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE
0755 PM GREAT BARRINGTON MA WIND DAMAGE
07/17/98 BERKSHIRE TREES AND WIRE DOWNNearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.