I still remember that one too. Think it was the worst severe storm I saw at my childhood house. I remember we went to the basement and came up to trees uprooted. I can still remember this like large group of families just wandering the neighborhood together in awe looking at damage.
On Sunday, May 31, 1998, a severe weather outbreak occurred across the northeast United States. The severe thunderstorms produced 20 tornadoes within a two hour drive of Albany, NY, along with hundreds of damaging wind and large hail reports.
On May 31, 1998, the Albany NWS forecast area was in a “High Risk” for severe weather as defined by the NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, OK. SPC has been issuing severe weather outlooks since the mid-1950s. This is the only time the Albany forecast area has been put in a “High Risk”. It hadn’t happened before, it hasn’t happed since.