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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Albany, NY

September 2, 1998Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1998, 5:10 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 45 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
Sep 2, 1998, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 1998, 5:55 PM EDT
In force
45 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 21:14 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 2, 5:35 PM EDTThunderstorm WindMalta, NY
Sep 2, 5:35 PM EDTThunderstorm WindStillwater, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 1998-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 55 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 1998-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 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.

618 
WUUS1 KALB 022114 RRA
SVRALB
NYC091-022155-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
510 PM EDT WED SEP 2 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SARATOGA    COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL  555 PM EDT

* AT  510 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BALLSTON SPA MOVING 
  EAST ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BALLSTON SPA AT  515 PM
  5 MILES SOUTH OF SARATOGA SPRINGS AT  535 PM

LOOK FOR LARGE HAIL WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

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.


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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.