Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 2:04 AM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 61 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 26, 1998, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 3:05 AM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lewis County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 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 26, 3:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Castorland, 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 26, 1:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 2224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 260604 RRA SVRBUF NYC049-260705- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 204 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LEWIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 305 AM EDT * AT 200 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JEFFERSON COUNTY FROM FORT DRUM TO WATERTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER... NORTHERN LEWIS COUNTY BETWEEN 205 AND 245 AM 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Wayne | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 2:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 2:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 3:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 3:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 3:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 3:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Wayne | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 4:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 5:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 6:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 87 min |
| Jun 26, 7:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 92 min |
| Jun 26, 8:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Genesee | 94 min |
| Jun 26, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Monroe | 50 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.