Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 1998, 8:30 AM EDT for Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 45 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, 8:30 AM EDT (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1998, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Schoharie County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
639 WUUS1 KALB 011233 RRA SVRALB NYC095-011315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 830 AM EDT THU OCT 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SCHOHARIE COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 915 AM EDT * AT 830 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COBLESKILL MOVING EAST ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SCHOHARIE AT 845 AM GALLUPVILLE AT 850 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. |42.667 74.501 |42.667 74.275 |42.667 74.050 |42.667 73.824 |42.667 73.599
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 43 minutes 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 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.