Alert archive / Vermont / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 5:05 PM EDT for Windham County, Vermont. It was in force for 70 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
- May 31, 1998, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:42 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Battleboro, VT |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
274 WFUS1 KALB 312103 RRA TORALB VTC025-312215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 505 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WINDHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 504 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR BENNINGTON IN BENNINGTON COUNTY MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 50 MILES AN HOUR TNTO WINDHAM COUNTY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION...TAKE COVER NOW * THE TORNDAO WILL BE NEAR... STRATTON AT 515 PM 5 MILES NORTH OF NEWFANE AT 525 PM SAXTONS RIVER AT 540 PM 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Bennington | 74 min |
| May 31, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Bennington | 59 min |
| May 31, 7:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Windham | 67 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.