Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 12:36 AM EDT for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 64 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
- Sep 7, 1998, 12:36 AM EDT (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 1:40 AM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Livingston County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 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.
590 WUUS1 KBUF 070437 RRA SVRBUF NYC051-070540- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1236 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 140 AM EDT * AT 1235 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ATTICA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AVON AT 1245 AM CALEDONIA BY 100 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.
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, 12:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Wyoming | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.