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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Albany, NY

October 1, 1998Bennington County, Vermont

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 1998-10-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 436 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 00:00Z on 1998-10-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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

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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.