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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Burlington, VT

August 13, 1990Windsor County, Vermont

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1990, 8:24 PM EDT for Windsor County, Vermont. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1990, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1990, 9:24 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

County Windsor County, VT

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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 00:00Z on 1990-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 921 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1990-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 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
921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
6.5

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The text

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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.