Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1998, 11:23 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 47 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
- Sep 6, 1998, 11:23 PM EDT (03:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 12:10 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 11:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Olcott, 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 1469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
374 WFUS1 KBUF 070324 RRA TORBUF NYC063-NYZ522-523-070410- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1123 PM EDT SUN SEP 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NIAGARA COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1210 AM EDT * AT 1120 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO THE WESTERN END OF LAKE ONTARIO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NEAR WILSON BY 1145 PM IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. TAKE COVER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR CLOSET...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. SAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 49 min |
| Sep 6, 11:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 63 min |
| Sep 6, 11:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 32 min |
| Sep 7, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 12:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 12:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Wyoming | 66 min |
| Sep 7, 12:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 12:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 1:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 1:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 67 min |
| Sep 7, 1:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 34 min |
| Sep 7, 2:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 8:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 63 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.