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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Burlington, VT

July 13, 1986Onondaga County, Oswego County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1986, 6:40 PM EDT for Onondaga County, Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1986, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1986, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Onondaga County, NY, Oswego County, NY

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1986-07-13Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1986-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 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
595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
242 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:48 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
550 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 1986

  ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN NEW YORK STATE...

AT 545 PM SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN FRANKLIN
COUNTY OF NEW YORK NEAR SARANAC LAKE.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE AROUND SPECULATOR IN HAMILTON
COUNTY AND JUST EAST OF CAROGA IN FULTON COUNTY.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT PERSONS IN
WESTERN VERMONT FROM CHITTENDEN COUNTY SOUTH TO POWNAL IN BENNINGTON
COUNTY BETWEEN 615 PM AND 7 PM THIS EVENING.

MANY OF THE STORMS CONTAIN BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
IF THESE STORMS ARE SIGHTED TAKE COVER AT ONCE.
END...LUISI.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOneida, Oswego75 min
Jul 13, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOnondaga75 min
Jul 13, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVLewis, Oneida90 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in New York, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes in 1986

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.