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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Albany, NY

September 8, 1998Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1998, 5:25 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 25 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 8, 1998, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 1998, 5:50 PM EDT
In force
25 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 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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 1998-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 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 1998-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -74 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-51 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.

632 
WUUS1 KALB 082126 RRA
SVRALB
NYC091-082150-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
525 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL  550 PM EDT

* AT  520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF ROUND LAKE MOVING 
  SOUTH ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROUND LAKE AT  525 PM
  CLIFTON PARK AT  535 PM

HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.


|42.966  73.835 |42.880  73.793 |42.794  73.750 |42.708  73.707 |42.622  73.665

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 8, 1:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP B
0119PM     TUE SEP 08 1998
BMOH WLSR
00052    FILE 28   PD S.R. MOHAWK TRIBAL NY0162600           SEP 08-98
TO       NWS

 REPORTED SIGHTING OF POSSIBLE TWISTER ON OR NEAR ST LAWRENCE RIVER NORTHERN NY
OR PROV OF ONTARIO, CANADA  PLEASE UPDATE ON ANY INFO

AUTH CHIEF WESLEY BENEDICT            J
OPER - WARD,LUCILLE A                 1319

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.