Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 11:16 PM EDT for Erie County, Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 64 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 24, 1998, 11:16 PM EDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1998, 12:20 AM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, NY, Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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, 11:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda, NY | |
| Aug 24, 11:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsville, 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
286 WUUS1 KBUF 250318 RRA SVRBUF NYC029-063-250420- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1116 PM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1220 AM EDT * AT 1115 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM ST CATHARINES TO NIAGARA FALLS TO LOCKPORT...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL CROSS... SOUTHERN NIAGARA COUNTY AND THE NORTHERN BUFFALO SUBURBS THROUGH 1215 AM 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. MCLAUGHLIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Wayne | 58 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.