Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS New York, NY

June 2, 1998Orange County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 10:57 PM EDT for Orange County, New York. It was in force for 48 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, 10:57 PM EDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1998, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Orange County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 2, 11:10 PM EDTHail 0.75Bullville, 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1998-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1998-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

978 
WUUS1 KNYC 030258 RRA
SVRNYC
NYC071-030345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1057 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM
  CHESTER               BY 1049 PM EDT
  OXFORD                BY 1053 PM EDT
  WOODBURY              BY 1056 PM EDT
  WARWICK               BY 1057 PM EDT
  HARRIMAN              BY 1100 PM EDT
  GREENWOOD LAKE        BY 1103 PM EDT

* AT 1055 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN UPTON
  NY INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF GOSHEN
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

MET/MLE

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 12:22 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSuffolk33 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.