Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 2:55 PM EDT for Warren County, New York. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 24, 1998, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 3:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Luzerne, 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
159 WUUS1 KALB 241856 RRA SVRALB NYC113-241940- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 255 PM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 340 PM EDT * AT 250 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF CORINTH MOVING EAST ABOUT 50 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE LUZERNE-HADLEY AT 300 PM GLENS FALLS NORTH AT 305 PM GLENS FALLS AT 310 PM 5 MILES NORTH OF HUDSON FALLS AT 315 PM FORT ANN AT 320 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. |43.264 73.952 |43.328 73.713 |43.392 73.475 |43.457 73.237 |43.521 72.998
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Washington | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.