Alert archive / Vermont / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 1998, 7:48 AM EDT for Bennington County, Vermont. It was in force for 27 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
- Oct 1, 1998, 7:48 AM EDT (11:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1998, 8:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 27 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 11:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 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
- 436 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
394 WUUS1 KALB 011150 RRA SVRALB VTC003-011220- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 748 AM EDT THU OCT 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BENNINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT * UNTIL 815 AM EDT * AT 745 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALEM MOVING EAST ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MANCHESTER AT 755 AM MANCHESTER CENTER AT 800 AM 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. |43.110 73.249 |43.139 73.027 |43.169 72.805 |43.198 72.582 |43.227 72.360
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, Oct 1, 5:47 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP G 0547AM THU OCT 01 1998 GCOS WLSR GSGF APTS 06792 FILE 28 SARATOGA COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPT NY0450000 OCT 01-98 TO APTS LOCATION: ROUTE 9 - BETWEEN FEEDERDAM ROAD AND BLUEBIRD ROAD - T/O MOREAU ROUTE 9 WILL BE CLOSED FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS DUE TO A TRACTOR TRAILER ROLL-OVER ACCIDENT ROUTE 9 WILL BE OPEN FOR LOCAL TRAFFIC ONLY FROM FEEDERDAM ROAD SOUTH TO MERRITT ROAD FOR LOCAL SCHOOL ACCESS AUTH SGT J CRAIG DOHERTY OPER - REISNER,JEFFREY B 0546
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 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.