Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 11:52 AM EDT for Jefferson County, New York. It was in force for 93 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
- Aug 24, 1998, 11:52 AM EDT (15:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 1:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
235 WUUS1 KBUF 241555 RRA SVRBUF NYC045-241725- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1152 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 125 PM EDT * AT 1150 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTH OF KINGSTON ONTARIO...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALEXANDRIA BAY AT 1210 PM EDT CLAYTON AT 1215 PM EDT FT DRUM 1220 PM EDT 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, 10:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 10:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 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
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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.