Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 10:15 AM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 24, 1998, 10:15 AM EDT (14:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 11:20 AM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:17 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 24, 10:15 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Randolph, 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, 9:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 1420 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
658 WUUS1 KBUF 241418 RRA SVRBUF NYC009-241520- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1015 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1120 AM EDT * AT 1015 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ALLEGANY STATE PARK...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SALAMANCA LIMESTONE OLEAN IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 9:45 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, 10:42 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.