Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 4:26 PM EDT for Franklin County, New York. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 24, 1998, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 5:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 4:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | North Bangor, NY | |
| Aug 24, 5:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake, NY | |
| Aug 24, 5:20 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Tupper Lake, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 1304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Orange | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Washington | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 3:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BTV | Addison, Washington | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Chittenden | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison, Washington | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Rutland | 77 min |
| Aug 24, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Orange, Windsor | 77 min |
| Aug 24, 12:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | St. Lawrence | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | St. Lawrence | 77 min |
| Aug 24, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton | 61 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.