Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1998, 8:26 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 59 min. 2 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
- Jul 23, 1998, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1998, 9:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saratoga County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Malta, NY | |
| Jul 23, 8:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballston Spa, 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 1064 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
411 WUUS1 KALB 240027 RRA SVRALB NYC091-240125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 826 PM EDT THU JUL 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SARATOGA COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 925 PM EDT * AT 825 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF GALWAY ... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEAR BALLSTON SPA AT 840 PM JUST NORTH OF MALTA AT 845 PM THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS THIS STORM HAS DOWNED NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES IN THE TOWNS OF GALWAY AND EDINBURG. CERNIGLIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 61 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.