Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 7:10 PM EDT for Ontario 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ontario County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Clifton Spgs, 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 |
| Jun 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 114 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.
693 WUUS1 KBUF 022312 RRA SVRBUF NYC069-030015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 710 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 705 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF BRISTOL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRISTOL AT 715 PM CANANDAIGUA LAKE BETWEEN 720 AND 745 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. BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO PRODUCE DRAINAGE FLOODING. NIZIOL
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, 5:07 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, 7:45 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.