Alert archive / New York / Tornado Watches in 1998

Tornado Watch 485

May 31, 19987 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 31, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT for 7 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1998, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 49 counties

Berkshire County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Albany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Madison County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	50 min
May 31, 8:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Delaware	65 min
May 31, 8:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Pike, Wayne	66 min
May 31, 8:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Bennington	41 min
May 31, 8:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Bradford	63 min
May 31, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampshire	50 min
May 31, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	65 min
May 31, 8:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	73 min
May 31, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Merrimack, Rockingham	64 min
May 31, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Cheshire, Hillsborough	47 min
May 31, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	66 min
May 31, 8:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Berkshire	54 min
May 31, 8:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	75 min
May 31, 9:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden	61 min
May 31, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	61 min
May 31, 9:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampshire	64 min
May 31, 9:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Wayne	62 min
May 31, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	62 min
May 31, 9:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Wayne	64 min
May 31, 10:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Worcester	35 min
May 31, 10:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	59 min
May 31, 10:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex	66 min
May 31, 10:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Providence	35 min
May 31, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Norfolk	45 min
May 31, 10:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol	47 min
May 31, 10:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Kent	50 min
May 31, 10:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol	50 min
May 31, 10:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex, Suffolk	49 min
May 31, 11:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Providence	35 min

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -348 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 10:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC		6 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.