Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 5:07 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 63 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, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 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 21:11 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
809 WUUS1 KBUF 022108 RRA SVRBUF NYC013-022210- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 507 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 610 PM EDT * AT 505 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FREWSBURG AT 530 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
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
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 11:30 AM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-021600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1130 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 ...ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FOUND OVER LAKE MICHIGAN AT MIDDAY WILL RAPIDLY TRACK ACROSS SOUTHERN ONTARIO LATE TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE STORM SYSTEM WILL SLING ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK IN THE PROCESS...AND THIS WILL AID IN GENERATING ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL COME BETWEEN 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND 9 PM THIS EVENING...AS THE COLD FRONT PLOWS THROUGH THE REGION. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER IS A POSSIBILITY FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK...THE HIGHEST RISK WILL BE FOUND OVER THE SOUTHERN TIER AND FOR SITES EAST OF SYRACUSE. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR THE STORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INFORMATION FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS...INCLUDING POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE OBTAINED OFF OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.WBUF.NOAA.GOV. SKYWARN MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. RSH
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 11:30 AM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-021600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1130 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 ...ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FOUND OVER LAKE MICHIGAN AT MIDDAY WILL RAPIDLY TRACK ACROSS SOUTHERN ONTARIO LATE TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE STORM SYSTEM WILL SLING ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK IN THE PROCESS...AND THIS WILL AID IN GENERATING ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL COME BETWEEN 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND 9 PM THIS EVENING...AS THE COLD FRONT PLOWS THROUGH THE REGION. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER IS A POSSIBILITY FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK...THE HIGHEST RISK WILL BE FOUND OVER THE SOUTHERN TIER AND FOR SITES EAST OF SYRACUSE. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR THE STORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INFORMATION FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS...INCLUDING POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE OBTAINED OFF OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.WBUF.NOAA.GOV. SKYWARN MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. RSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 57 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
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.