Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 4:16 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 59 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 16, 1998, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 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 20:19 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 16, 5:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkwright, 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, 8.3 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 162016 RRA SVRBUF NYC013-NYZ520-521-162115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 416 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 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 515 PM EDT * AT 410 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SEVERAL OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST NORTH OF CHAUTAUQUA LAKE. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RIPLEY BY 430 PM EDT WESTFIELD BY 445 PM EDT DUNKIRK BY 500 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.
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.