Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 2, 1998Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:13 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 57 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: Jun 2, 1998, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1998, 5:10 PM EDT
In force: 57 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 20:15 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
Jun 2, 5:20 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Kiantone, 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, 8.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1267 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

416 
WUUS1 KBUF 022014 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC013-NYZ520-022110-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
413 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN WESTERN
  NEW YORK

* UNTIL 510 PM EDT

* AT 410 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF SHERMAN...MOVING EAST AT 45
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SHERMAN AT 425 PM
  JAMESTOWN AT 440 PM

IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES.

SFM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	63 min
Jun 2, 5:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Erie	77 min
Jun 2, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	64 min
Jun 2, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	65 min
Jun 2, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Wyoming	63 min
Jun 2, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	65 min
Jun 2, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston	62 min
Jun 2, 6:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Wyoming	62 min
Jun 2, 6:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Livingston	62 min
Jun 2, 6:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	66 min
Jun 2, 7:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Allegany	63 min
Jun 2, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	65 min
Jun 2, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	65 min

Nearby

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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.