Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Albany, NY

May 20, 1998Hamilton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 1998, 1:35 PM EDT for Hamilton County, New York. It was in force for 50 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
May 20, 1998, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 1998, 2:25 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, NY

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 20, 1:45 PM EDTThunderstorm WindLong Lake, 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

052 
WUUS1 KALB 201737 RRA
SVRALB
NYC041-201820-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
135 PM EDT WED MAY 20 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON    COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL  225 PM EDT

* AT  135 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LONG LAKE MOVING 
  EAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR SALMOND POND WHICH IS 10 MILE SOUTHEAST
  OF LONG LAKE BY 200 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.


|43.853  74.620 |43.890  74.483 |43.927  74.345 |43.964  74.207 |44.002  74.070

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 20, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYWarren, Washington53 min
May 20, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess, Ulster49 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.