Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 1:37 AM EDT for Warren County, Washington County, New York. It was in force for 93 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
- Sep 7, 1998, 1:37 AM EDT (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 3:10 AM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 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 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 10.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 070537 RRA SVRALB NYC113-115-070710- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 137 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WARREN COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK WASHINGTON COUNTY NEW YORK IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 310 AM EDT * AT 135 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN BAKERS MILLS AND PUTNAM STATION... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WARRENSBURG AND SOUTH BAY AT 150 AM EDT LAKE GEORGE AND HAMPTON AT 210 AM EDT GLENS FALLS AND GRANVILLE AT 225 AM EDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! GG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 12:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 92 min |
| Sep 7, 1:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 1:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 1:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 61 min |
| Sep 7, 2:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady | 118 min |
| Sep 7, 2:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 118 min |
| Sep 7, 2:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Rensselaer | 118 min |
| Sep 7, 2:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 118 min |
| Sep 7, 3:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 3:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 48 min |
| Sep 7, 3:32 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Washington | 33 min |
| Sep 7, 5:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 6:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 45 min |
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.