Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 12:29 AM EDT for Erie County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 66 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
- Sep 7, 1998, 12:29 AM EDT (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 1:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 12:30 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Orchard Park, NY | |
| Sep 7, 12:55 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Holland, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 1469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 070429 RRA SVRBUF NYC029-121-070535- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1229 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 135 AM EDT * AT 1225AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTRAL ERIE COUNTY NEAR ORCHARD PARK... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EAST AURORA TO HOLLAND BETWEEN 1230 AND 1245AM WARSAW TO ARCADE BETWEEN 1245 AND 115AM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 11:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Niagara | 47 min |
| Sep 6, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 49 min |
| Sep 6, 11:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 63 min |
| Sep 6, 11:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 32 min |
| Sep 7, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 12:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 12:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 12:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 1:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 1:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 67 min |
| Sep 7, 1:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 34 min |
| Sep 7, 2:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 8:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 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.