Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 4:40 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 90 min. 2 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
- May 29, 1998, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Scranton, PA | A severe thunderstorm moved through Lackawanna County during the afternoon and knocked down many large trees and wires on the north side of Scranton around 5:15 pm EDT. |
| May 29, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dallas, PA | A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Luzerne County knocking down trees and wires countywide between 5:45 and 6:05 pm EDT. Trees and wires were downed in Dallas at 5:45 pm and inKingston at 5:55 pm EDT. Several roofs were also blown off with a few lar |
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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 2:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 29, 1:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Onondaga | 47 min |
| May 29, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 64 min |
| May 29, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Oneida | 62 min |
| May 29, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca | 64 min |
| May 29, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Yates | 64 min |
| May 29, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Tompkins | 61 min |
| May 29, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Onondaga | 62 min |
| May 29, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cortland | 64 min |
| May 29, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Tioga | 77 min |
| May 29, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 77 min |
| May 29, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 78 min |
| May 29, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome | 75 min |
| May 29, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Tompkins | 45 min |
| May 29, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 80 min |
| May 29, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 64 min |
| May 29, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 93 min |
| May 29, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 61 min |
| May 29, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 75 min |
| May 29, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 72 min |
| May 29, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 64 min |
| May 29, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Wyoming | 79 min |
| May 29, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 62 min |
| May 29, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 78 min |
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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.