Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1998, 6:48 AM EDT for Albany County, Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 20, 1998, 6:48 AM EDT (10:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1998, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Albany County, NY, Schoharie County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:01 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Middleburg, NY | A weak warm front moving north from eastern New York produced an isolated severe thunderstorm in Schoharie County. The storm downed power lines in the town of Middleburgh. |
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 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
994 WUUS1 KALB 201049 RRA SVRALB NYC001-095-201150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 648 AM EDT MON JUL 20 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SCHOHARIE COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK ALBANY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 745 AM EDT * AT 645 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RICHMONDVILLE MOVING EAST ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES SOUTH OF COBLESKILL AT 650 AM MIDDLEBURGH AT 655 AM SCHOHARIE AT 700 AM 5 MILES SOUTH OF DELANSON AT 710 AM ALTAMONT AT 720 AM WESTMERE AT 730 AM COLONIE AT 735 AM 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. |42.603 74.491 |42.640 74.300 |42.678 74.110 |42.716 73.919 |42.754 73.729
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
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:07 AM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
CTZ001-MAZ001-NYZ039-040-047>054-058>061-063>066-201500- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 307 AM EDT MON JUL 20 1998 ...ISOLATED AREAS OF DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW ENGLAND TODAY... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TODAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR. WARMER MORE HUMID AIR WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. THIS WILL GIVE THE ATMOSPHERE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. DRIER AIR WILL BLOW IN TONIGHT...AND THE THREAT WILL DIMINISH DURING THE EVENING. HEMMERICH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 65 min |
| Jul 20, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 42 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.