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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Albany, NY

September 7, 1998Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 1998, 3:22 AM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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: Sep 7, 1998, 3:22 AM EDT (07:22 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 1998, 4:10 AM EDT
In force: 48 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 07:21 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	Remark
Sep 7, 3:50 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Edinburg, 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
Sep 7, 1:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 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-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: 1998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 10.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KALB 070722 RRA
TORALB
NYC091-070810-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
322 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SARATOGA COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 410 AM EDT

* AT 320 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF SARATOGA SPRINGS... MOVING EAST AT 50
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR|...
  SARATOGA SPRINGS AT 328 AM EDT
  GANSEVOORT AT 335 AM EDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

JSQ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 12:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	92 min
Sep 7, 1:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	93 min
Sep 7, 1:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery	2 hr
Sep 7, 1:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Schoharie	2 hr
Sep 7, 1:59 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Herkimer	61 min
Sep 7, 2:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady	118 min
Sep 7, 2:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Greene	118 min
Sep 7, 2:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	118 min
Sep 7, 2:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	118 min
Sep 7, 3:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren	63 min
Sep 7, 3:32 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Washington	33 min
Sep 7, 5:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	60 min
Sep 7, 6:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	45 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.