Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 1998, 5:15 PM EDT for Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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 27, 1998, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1998, 6:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orleans County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 27, 5:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Albion, 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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.
664 WUUS1 KBUF 272116 RRA SVRBUF NYC073-272220- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 515 PM EDT SUN SEP 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ORLEANS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 620 PM EDT * AT 513 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN LOCKPORT AND MIDDLEPORT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MEDINA BY 525 PM EDT NEAR ALBION BY 540 PM EDT 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/TA
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 27, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NEW YORK
225 PM EDT SUN SEP 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0215 PM MILLGROVE NY 1 INCH HAIL
09/27/98 ERIELocal storm report, Sep 27, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NEW YORK
225 PM EDT SUN SEP 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0215 PM MILLGROVE NY 1 INCH HAIL
09/27/98 ERIELocal storm report, Sep 27, 2:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NEW YORK
256 PM EDT SUN SEP 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0215 PM MILLGROVE NY 1 INCH HAIL
09/27/98 ERIE
0236 PM ALDEN NY 1 INCH HAIL
09/27/98 ERIE 1.79 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE
THIS MORNINGLocal storm report, Sep 27, 2:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NEW YORK
256 PM EDT SUN SEP 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0215 PM MILLGROVE NY 1 INCH HAIL
09/27/98 ERIE
0236 PM ALDEN NY 1 INCH HAIL
09/27/98 ERIE 1.79 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE
THIS MORNINGThe 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, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 58 min |
| Sep 27, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 62 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.