Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 1998, 1:48 AM EDT for Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 47 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 7, 1998, 1:48 AM EDT (05:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 2:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oneida County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 1:55 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Verona, NY | The derecho continued to progress quickly towards the east-southeast. It inflicted more widespread wind damage down the western Mohawk Valley. Tree and structural damage was quite common over central and southern sections of the county. Additional reports o |
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 6, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 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
- 1998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 10.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBGM 070548 RRA TORBGM NYC065-070635- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 148 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ONEIDA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 235 AM EDT * AT 147 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF CANASTOTA... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CLINTON AT 205 AM GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! PADAVONA DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADIC WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SAFETY IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. BE MINDFUL OF RISING WATERS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 12:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca, Yates | 58 min |
| Sep 7, 12:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Onondaga | 58 min |
| Sep 7, 1:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 1:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 1:34 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Madison, Onondaga | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 1:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Otsego | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 2:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 2:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Delaware | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 3:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Steuben | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 3:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Tompkins | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 3:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Steuben, Tioga | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 3:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 4:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 5:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 74 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.