Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 4:53 AM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1998, 4:53 AM EDT (08:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 5:55 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wyoming County, NY
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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 1359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
957 WUUS1 KBUF 260854 RRA SVRBUF NYC121-260955- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 453 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 555 AM EDT * AT 445 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BATAVIA TO EAST AURORA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WARSAW BETWEEN 500 AND 515AM EDT ARCADE BETWEEN 515 AND 530AM EDT THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...NEARLY CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS THAT WILL PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. TAN
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, 2:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 61 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.