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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Albany, NY

June 30, 1998Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1998, 7:25 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 65 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 1998, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1998, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 30, 7:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie, NY
Jun 30, 7:30 PM EDT	Hail 1	Holmes, NY
Jun 30, 7:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Holmes, NY
Jun 30, 7:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Poughkeepsie, NY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 30, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 30, 6:41 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP C
0640PM     TUE JUN 30 1998
CBSO WLSR QHQT QTRF APTS WAPT
04044    FILE 28   BROOME CO EMER SVC 911 CENTER NY003013P   JUN 30-98
TO       NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         COPY SEMO DUTY OFFICER
                   THUNDERSTORM/HIGH WIND REPORT

COUNTY(S) AFFECTED: BROOME

LOCATION (INCLUDING TOWN AND NEAREST ROAD): VILLAGE OF ENDICOTT/TOWN OF MAINE/
TOWN OF CHENANGO/TOWN OF FENTON/TOWN OF KIRKWOOD/TOWN OF COLESVILLE/TOWN VESTAL
DATE AND TIME CONDITION STARTED: 4-30 PM
EXTENT OF DAMAGE OR AREAS IN DANGER: MOSTLY FLOODING DUE TO OVERFLOW OF STORM
SEWERS, SMALL CREEKS, AND DRAINAGES--SOME ROADS,HOMES AND BUSINESSES FLOODED

CHECK ONE:
HAIL SIZE REPORTED
( ) - NO HAIL REPORTED    (X) - LESS THAN 1/2" (PEA)
( ) - 1/2" (MARBLE)       ( ) - 1/2" TO 3/4" (PENNY)
( ) - 3/4" TO 1" (DIME)   ( ) - 1.25" (HALF DOLLAR)
( ) - 1.50" (WALNUT)      ( ) - 1.75" (GOLFBALL)
( ) - 2.00" (HENS EGG)    ( ) - 2.50" (TENNISBALL)
( ) - 2.75" (BASEBALL)    ( ) - 3.00" (TEA CUP)
( ) - 4.00" (GRAPEFRUIT)  ( ) - 4.50" (SOFTBALL)
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
LIGHTNING REPORTED AS ( ) - CLOUD TO CLOUD  (X) - CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING DAMAGE TO:            ( ) - TREES
( ) - POWER/TELCO POLES   (X) - POWER/TELCO LINES
(X) - COMM. BUILDINGS     (X) - PRIVATE HOMES
( ) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS  ( ) - CROPS
NUMBER KILLED:          NUMBER INJURED:

CHECK ONE OR MORE AS APPLICABLE:
HIGH WIND/T'STORM WIND DAMAGE   ( ) - CROPS
(X) - SMALL TREES/SHRUBS  (X) - LARGE TREES
( ) - COMM. BUILDINGS     ( ) - PRIVATE HOMES
( ) - OUT/FARM BUILDINGS  ( ) - POWER/TELCO POLES
( ) - POWER/TELCO LINES

RELIABLE WIND SPEED REPORTS:     MPH OR    KNOTS
NUMBER KILLED:      0   NUMBER INJURED:      0

FLOODING (IF EXTENSIVE, SEND SEPARATE FLOOD MESSAGE FROM MENU)
(X) - STORM SEWER OVERFLOWS, UNDERPASSES, STREET FLOODING
(X) - LOCAL SMALL CREEKS OVERFLOWING
( ) - STREAMS AND LARGE CREEKS FLOODING (COMPLETE REMARKS W/DAMAGE

REMARKS: WORST FLOODING IN VILLAGE ENDICOTT-ROBBLE AV & WASHINGTON AV-STORE AND
CHURCH.  ALSO TOWN OF CHENANGO HINER PARK CREEK OVERFLOW FLOODED SEVERAL HOMES
ON HICKORY RD, BUSINESS 1446 UPPER FRONT ST AND RESIDENCE 10 THOMAS ST
AUTH PHONE #: 607 778-1911

AUTH EMER MGR MICHAEL F ASWAD              CHELLIS     6-36 PM

OPER - PARKER,KIMBERLY J              1839

Local storm report, Jun 30, 6:56 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
656 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0650 PM    GARDINER                  NY   WIND DAMAGE
06/30/98   ULSTER                         TREE DOWN ON ROAD - REPORT
                                          FROM STATE POLICE

Local storm report, Jun 30, 7:07 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
707 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0650 PM    GARDINER                  NY   WIND DAMAGE
06/30/98   ULSTER                         TREE DOWN ON ROAD - REPORT
                                          FROM STATE POLICE

0705 PM    FISHKILL                  NY   1 INCH HAIL
06/30/98   DUTCHESS                       QUARTER SIZE HAIL - REPORT
                                          FROM SPOTTER

Local storm report, Jun 30, 7:22 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
722 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0720 PM    WHALEY LAKE               NY   .88 INCH HAIL
06/30/98   DUTCHESS                       NICKEL SIZE HAIL - REPORT
                                          FROM SPOTTER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	62 min
Jun 30, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	70 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.