Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 5:35 PM EDT for Tioga County, New York. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 25, 1998, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1998, 6:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tioga County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:46 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Spencer, NY | A thunderstorm cell became severe briefly over northwestern sections of the county late in the afternoon. Hailstones ranging from nickel to golf ball sized were observed by skywarn spotters in East Spencer. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cortland, Tompkins | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 8:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 61 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.