Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 1998, 3:27 PM EDT for Chautauqua 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
- Sep 27, 1998, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1998, 4:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KBUF 271928 RRA SVRBUF NYC013-272025- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 327 PM EDT SUN SEP 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 425 PM EDT * AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF ERIE PENNSYLVANIA...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORM. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...SHERMAN 340 PM AND WILL CONTINUE EAST. 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. EGR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 64 min |
| Sep 26, 9:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 63 min |
| Sep 26, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 63 min |
| Sep 26, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 61 min |
| Sep 26, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 63 min |
| Sep 27, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 62 min |
| Sep 27, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 62 min |
| Sep 27, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 65 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.