Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 1998, 2:35 PM EDT for Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 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 27, 1998, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1998, 3:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Susquehanna County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Meadows, PA | The same line of thunderstorms that produced isolated damage in northern Bradford county earlier in the afternoon continued eastward through the northern tier of Susquehanna county just south of the state line. More isolated wind damage accompanied these s |
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 nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Oneida | 77 min |
| 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.