Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1998, 9:45 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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 23, 1998, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1998, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oswego County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 10:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Oswego, NY | |
| Aug 23, 10:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Constantia, 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1260 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 240144 RRA SVRBUF NYC075-NYZ525-526-240245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 945 PM EDT SUN AUG 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS I
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 5:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 6:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 67 min |
| Aug 24, 9:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 78 min |
| Aug 24, 10:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 10:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 93 min |
| Aug 24, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 63 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.