Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 8:02 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 58 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, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1041 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1106 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
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 Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 11:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.