Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1998, 2:28 PM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1998, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Steuben County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 295 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.
277 WUUS1 KBGM 311829 RRA SVRBGM NYC101-311930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 228 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEUBEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN STEUBEN COUNTY... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BATH AND JASPER BY 245 PM EDT NORTH URBANA AND SAVONA BY 300 PM EDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS TOWNSEND
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 31, 2:11 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:11 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 211 PM SUN MAY 31 1998 ACTIVE CONVECTION HAS MOVED ACROSS N NY THIS AFTERNOON AND IS BEGINNING TO DIE OUT SOMEWHAT AS IT EXITS STAGE RIGHT. NEXT ROUND OF ACTIVITY IS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN NY. ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AS IT MOVES INTO THE MORE UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVR THE FA. THIS AREA WILL HAVE TO BE WATCHED THIS AFTERNOON AND WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF ANOTHER WATCH IS ISSUED FURTHER SOUTH ALONG THE SOUTHERN TIER OF NY AND NE PA. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS MASSIVE STORMS OVR W NY AND NW PA MOVING DUE E TOWARD THE FA. MODELS SHOW A VORT LOBE ROT THROUGH THE FA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND WILL CONTINUE TO AID IN SUPPORTING SEVERE CONVECTION. LATER IN THE PERIOD TONIGHT...NVA SPREADS ACROSS THE RGN HELPING TO STABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. THEN ANOTHER SHOT OF VORTICITY ROT TOWARD THE FA FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. SFC LOW TRACKING ACROSS THE N TIER OF THE NATION AND PRECEEDING THIS SYSTEM WILL BE WAA AND COULD BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SVR WEATHER ON WEDNESDAY AS WAA RETURNS. CDFNT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL ARRIVE WEDNESDAY FOCUSING SEVERE WEATHER. .BGM...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 3 PM FOR NYZ009-015>018-022>025-044. LOMBARDY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 12:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036>037-044>046-055>057-062- PAZ038>040-043>044-047>048-010300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1238 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH...DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL...AND A FEW TORNADOES IS EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS FORECASTING AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND A FEW TORNADOES FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. A SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTHERN ONTARIO IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEEPENING AS IT MOVES RAPIDLY INTO SOUTHERN QUEBEC DURING THE DAY. STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS AHEAD OF THE LOW WILL BRING VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS MUCH OF THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES INTO WESTERN NEW ENGLAND. WITH THE LOW CONTINUING TO INTENSIFY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY VERY DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES WILL SPREAD ACROSS NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE DAYTIME HEATING DESTABILIZES THE AIRMASS FURTHER...SEVERE STORMS WILL BECOME EVEN MORE WIDESPREAD...WITH THE ACTIVITY MOVING INTO NEW ENGLAND BY THIS EVENING. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER. A WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN DETECTED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OR SPOTTERS. IF A WARNING IS ISSUED...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. ~ THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. YOU ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES...AND LISTEN TO RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER WATCHES...WARNINGS...AND STATEMENTS. LOMBARDY
Special weather statement, May 31, 12:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036>037-044>046-055>057-062- PAZ038>040-043>044-047>048-010300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1238 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH...DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL...AND A FEW TORNADOES IS EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS FORECASTING AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND A FEW TORNADOES FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. A SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTHERN ONTARIO IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEEPENING AS IT MOVES RAPIDLY INTO SOUTHERN QUEBEC DURING THE DAY. STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS AHEAD OF THE LOW WILL BRING VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS MUCH OF THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES INTO WESTERN NEW ENGLAND. WITH THE LOW CONTINUING TO INTENSIFY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY VERY DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES WILL SPREAD ACROSS NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE DAYTIME HEATING DESTABILIZES THE AIRMASS FURTHER...SEVERE STORMS WILL BECOME EVEN MORE WIDESPREAD...WITH THE ACTIVITY MOVING INTO NEW ENGLAND BY THIS EVENING. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER. A WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN DETECTED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OR SPOTTERS. IF A WARNING IS ISSUED...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. ~ THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. YOU ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES...AND LISTEN TO RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER WATCHES...WARNINGS...AND STATEMENTS. LOMBARDY
Local storm report, May 31, 1:40 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NEW YORK
140 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1250 PM BRIDGEWATER NY WIND DAMAGE
05/31/98 ONEIDA TREES DOWN OVER STATE
ROUTE 8
1255 PM VIENNA NY WIND DAMAGE
05/31/98 ONEIDA HAY WAGON OVERTURNEDLocal storm report, May 31, 1:40 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NEW YORK
140 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1250 PM BRIDGEWATER NY WIND DAMAGE
05/31/98 ONEIDA TREES DOWN OVER STATE
ROUTE 8
1255 PM VIENNA NY WIND DAMAGE
05/31/98 ONEIDA HAY WAGON OVERTURNEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 11:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Seneca, Yates | 72 min |
| May 31, 11:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 72 min |
| May 31, 12:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Oneida | 76 min |
| May 31, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 63 min |
| May 31, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Seneca, Yates | 61 min |
| May 31, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Tompkins | 64 min |
| May 31, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga | 65 min |
| May 31, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler | 63 min |
| May 31, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung | 64 min |
| May 31, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Madison | 63 min |
| May 31, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 62 min |
| May 31, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 61 min |
| May 31, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 65 min |
| May 31, 4:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chemung, Steuben | 62 min |
| May 31, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Onondaga | 62 min |
| May 31, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 49 min |
| May 31, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Tioga | 78 min |
| May 31, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cortland | 63 min |
| May 31, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Madison | 61 min |
| May 31, 5:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Steuben | 62 min |
| May 31, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Schuyler | 62 min |
| May 31, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Broome | 64 min |
| May 31, 5:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chenango | 64 min |
| May 31, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Otsego | 61 min |
| May 31, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Broome, Delaware | 63 min |
| May 31, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chemung, Tioga | 63 min |
| May 31, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Broome | 67 min |
| May 31, 6:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Seneca | 2 hr |
| May 31, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Delaware | 65 min |
| May 31, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 61 min |
| May 31, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Tioga | 61 min |
| May 31, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome | 78 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.