Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1998, 9:33 PM EDT for Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 77 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 26, 1998, 9:33 PM EDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 1998, 10:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 77 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oneida County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 26, 9:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Camden, NY | A line of severe thunderstorms plowed across northern sections of the county late in the evening. Several trees and power lines were downed in a corridor from Camden eastward to Ava around and just after 1000 pm EDT. |
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 26, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 77 min |
| Sep 27, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung | 49 min |
| Sep 27, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Tioga | 48 min |
| Sep 27, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 49 min |
| Sep 27, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 48 min |
| Sep 27, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 65 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.