Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Burlington, VT

June 25, 1998Franklin County, New York

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 25, 7:07 PM EDTThunderstorm WindBrushton, NY
Jun 25, 7:15 PM EDTThunderstorm WindDickinson, NY
Jun 25, 8:00 PM EDTThunderstorm WindPaul 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1372 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVEssex91 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.