Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Burlington, VT

June 29, 1998Clinton County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 9:01 PM EDT for Clinton County, New York. It was in force for 79 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: Jun 29, 1998, 9:01 PM EDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 10:20 PM EDT
In force: 79 min
Issued by: NWS Burlington, VT
Area: Whole counties

County Clinton County, NY

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 288 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 29, 8:30 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 8:30 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 5:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VERMONT
531 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0454 PM    MOOERS                    NY   .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   CLINTON                        REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE

Local storm report, Jun 29, 8:12 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VERMONT
812 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0555 PM    WEST MILTON               VT   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   CHITTENDEN                     TREES DOWN

0555 PM    FAIRFAX                   VT   .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   FRANKLIN

0633 PM    STOWE                     VT   .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   LAMOILLE

0645 PM    STOWE                     VT   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   LAMOILLE                       TREES DOWN

0730 PM    MALONE                    NY   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   FRANKLIN

0800 PM    MARSHFIELD                VT   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES DOWN ON RT. 2

0800 PM    CALAIS                    VT   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES DOWN ON RT. 14

The office that day

Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 8:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Caledonia, Orange, Washington	3 hr
Jun 30, 1:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Chittenden, Franklin, Lamoille	5 hr
Jun 30, 1:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Caledonia, Orleans	6 hr
Jun 30, 2:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Washington	6 hr
Jun 29, 8:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton, Franklin	3 hr
Jun 30, 12:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Franklin	4 hr
Jun 30, 1:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BTV	Clinton, Essex	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1998 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.