Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Burlington, VT

June 22, 1988Jefferson County, Oswego County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1988, 11:51 AM EDT for Jefferson County, Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1988, 11:51 AM EDT (15:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1988, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jefferson 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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 1988-06-22Temperature 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 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 1988-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 216 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
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVBennington66 min
Jun 22, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVWindham50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.