Alert archive / Vermont / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Albany, NY
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.