Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 6:25 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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, 7:00 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Ellicottville, NY | |
| Jun 2, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ischua, 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 76 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.
410 WUUS1 KBUF 022226 RRA SVRBUF NYC009-022330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 625 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 625 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF NEW ALBION...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ELLICOTTVILLE AT 640 PM FRANKLINVILLE AT 645 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
Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NEW YORK
521 PM EDT TUE JUN 02 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM KIATONE NY WIND DAMAGE
06/02/98 CHAUTAUQUA 3/4 HAIL
LEVANLocal storm report, Jun 2, 5:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NEW YORK
521 PM EDT TUE JUN 02 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM KIATONE NY WIND DAMAGE
06/02/98 CHAUTAUQUA 3/4 HAIL
LEVANThe 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, 5:07 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, 6:38 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.