Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 2:37 AM EDT for Greene County, New York. It was in force for 118 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, 2:37 AM EDT (06:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 4:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 1:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 52 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.
060 WUUS1 KALB 070638 RRA SVRALB NYC001-039-091-093-070835- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 237 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SARATOGA COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK SCHENECTADY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK ALBANY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 435 AM EDT * AT AT 235 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN PISECO DOLGEVILLE SPRAKERS COBLESKILL... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BETWEEN EDINBURG GALWAY SCOTIA ALTAMONT WINDHAM AT 305 AM EDT BETWEEN CORINTH MECHANICVILLE COLONIE CAIRO AT 320 AM EDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS GG
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
Local storm report, Sep 7, 1:50 AM EDT, 47 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP E 0150AM MON SEP 07 1998 EHQT WLSR 06608 FILE 28 SP CANANDAIGUA NY1340100 SEP 07-98 TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROAD CONDITION REPORT FOR DATE: 9/7/98 TIME 1-15 AM COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: ENTIRE TROOP E 10 COUNTY AREA CONDITION(S) - SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND HIGH WINDS HAVE RESULTED IN POWER OUTAGES AND NUMEROUS TREES AND WIRES DOWN - GETTING REPORTS OF SEVERE DAMAGE TO HOMES AND PROPERTIES AUTH SGT REGINALD WHITE OPER - BRUTON, TRACEY A 0150
Local storm report, Sep 7, 1:57 AM EDT, 40 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP W
0157AM MON SEP 07 1998
WORL WLSR QHQT QTRF WAPT APTS
00003 FILE 28 ORLEANS COUNTY EMERGENCY 911 SEP 07-98
TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
ATTENTION SEMO DUTY OFFICER
SEVERE STORM POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN
DETAILS CONCERNING EVENT: STARTING MIDNIGHT SEVERE WEATHER STRUCK ORLEANS CO
VILL LYNDONVILLE HEADED EASTERLY DIRECTION
COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: ORLEANS
LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): VILLAGES LYNDONVILLE,ALBION, HOLLEY
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 12 MIDNIGHT
DATE AND TIME CONDITION ENDED: 0130 AM
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: POWER POLES WIRES AND TREES DOWN BLOCKING
MAIN ROUTES RT104 RIDGE RD ROOSEVELT HIGHWAY KENDALL
NUMBER KILLED: 0 NUMBER INJURED: 0
REMARKS: LARGE HAIL STONES ALSO REPORT OF POSS TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ON KENYONVILLE
RD 1209AM 2292 KENYONVILLE RD HOUSE ROOF RIPPED OFF 2271 OAK ORCH RIVER RD
ROOF AND TREES DOWN
VILL ALBION UNDER STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED BY VILL MAYOR SALVATORE 1AM
NO UNECESSARY TRAVEL DANGEROUS TRAVEL DUE TO POLE AND WIRES DOWN
AUTH PHONE #: 716 589-5$527
AUTH SHERIFF DAVID GREEN LITCHFIELD 154 AM
OPER - LITCHFIELD,WAYNE 0157Local storm report, Sep 7, 2:24 AM EDT, 13 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP E 0224AM MON SEP 07 1998 EHQT WLSR EADM 06609 FILE 28 SP CANANDAIGUA NY1340100 SEP 07-98 TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUE TO THE SEVERE WEATHER IN THE WAYNE COUNTY AREA THERE WILL BE NO UNNECESSARY TRAVEL IN THE COUNTY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE FROM THE SHERIFF AUTH TPR SUSAN ALLEN OPER - BRUTON, TRACEY A 0224
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, 1:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren, Washington | 93 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, 2:57 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
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.