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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Albany, NY

August 24, 1998Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 3:20 PM EDT for Bennington County, Vermont. It was in force for 45 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
Aug 24, 1998, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1998, 4:05 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Bennington County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 1998-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1304 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALB 241920 RRA
SVRALB
VTC003-242005-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
320 PM EDT MON AUG 24 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BENNINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT

* UNTIL 405 PM EDT

* AT 320 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF ARLINGTON MOVING 
  EAST ABOUT 50 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ARLINGTON AT  325 PM
  MANCHESTER AT  330 PM
  MANCHESTER CENTER AT  335 PM
  LONDONDERRY AT  345 PM
  5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHESTER-CHESTER DEPO AT  355 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.


|43.078  73.213 |43.142  72.974 |43.207  72.736 |43.271  72.498 |43.335  72.259

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, Aug 24, 3:10 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
310 PM EDT MON AUG 24 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 793 CANCELLED...

ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE WATCH AREA HAS NOT
TOTALLY BEEN ELIMINATED...THE RISK HAS DIMINISHED TO THE POINT THAT
THE WATCH BOX FOR SOUTHEAST NEW YORK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. RESIDENTS
SHOULD STILL KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND MONITOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

HTS
Special weather statement, Aug 24, 3:10 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
310 PM EDT MON AUG 24 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 793 CANCELLED...

ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE WATCH AREA HAS NOT
TOTALLY BEEN ELIMINATED...THE RISK HAS DIMINISHED TO THE POINT THAT
THE WATCH BOX FOR SOUTHEAST NEW YORK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. RESIDENTS
SHOULD STILL KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND MONITOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

HTS

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.