Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 6:38 PM EDT for Franklin County, New York. It was in force for 92 min. 3 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
- Jun 25, 1998, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1998, 8:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:07 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushton, NY | |
| Jun 25, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dickinson, NY | |
| Jun 25, 8:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Paul Smiths, NY |
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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 398 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.
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 Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 230 PM EDT THU JUN 25 1998 TROPICAL AIRMASS TO RMN IN PLACE THRU FRI...BUT SOMEWHAT COOLER & LESS HUMID AIR WL RETURN OVER WEEKEND. SOME SHWRS CURRENTLY MOVG ACRS NRN NY...AS DEPICTED ON KCXX/KTYX. LDS SWHOWING SOME STRIKES UPSTREAM OVR SE ONT. THIS ACTIVITY WL CONTINUE TO DVLP AND SPREAD SEWRD INTO FA THIS EVENING. GREATEST THREAT OF SVR WX THIS EVENING LIES WELL TO SW OF BTV CWA. ON FRIDAY...VIGOROUS SHRTWV EXPECTED TO TRACK ESE ACRS NRN GRTLKS...AND THEN MOV ACRS FA FRI NITE...WEAKENING A BIT WITH TIME. THIS DISTURBANCE WL RESULT IN DVLPMNT OF SFC LOW ALG CNTRL NEW ENG CST...WHICH WL AID IN ALLOWING CDFNT TO DEPRESS SOUTH ACRS FA FRI NITE. FLOODING WL CONTINUE TO BE MAIN CONCERN. FLOW ALOFT RMNS NW. PWS RMN HI (1.5-1.75) AND DWPTS IN UPR 60S TO ARND 70 THRU FRI. ANY CONVECTION THAT DVLPS HAS POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HVY RAINS. WND FIELD NOW STRONG ENOUGH SO THAT ANY FLOOD THREAT WL HAVE TO COME FROM TRAINING...POTENTIAL FOR WHICH INCREASES LATER TON/FRI...ESPEC IN NRN VT. ALSO THREAT OF SOME HAIL FRI/FRI EVEN AS COOLING ALOFT BEGINS. GUSTY WNDS ALSO PSBL IN ANY TSTRMS FRI...BUT SVR NOT EXPECTED. WOULD CONTINUE WITH AT LEAST LIKELY POPS FRI NITE. SLOW IMPROVEMENT BEGINS SAT. HOWEVER...CYC FLOW COMBINED WITH LINGERING LLVL MSTR ENOUGH TO WARRANT CHC SHWRS...ESP FOR VT. (FAN POPS FOR FRI NITE/SAT PREFERRED OVR FWC). FWC/FAN TEMPS SIMILAR AND GENERALLY ACCEPTED. RJS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex | 91 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.