Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 12:13 PM EDT for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 62 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
- May 29, 1998, 12:13 PM EDT (16:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Livingston County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 12:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Avon, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
537 WUUS1 KBUF 291616 RRA SVRBUF NYC051-291715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1213 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 115 PM EDT * AT 1200 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES EAST OF ATTICA TO JAVA CENTER... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CALEDONIA AT 1230 PM EDT NUNDA AT 1235 PM EDT BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO PRODUCE DRAINAGE FLOODING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 11:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 45 min |
| May 29, 11:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 46 min |
| May 29, 12:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 64 min |
| May 29, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.