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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Burlington, VT

August 28, 1990Onondaga County, Oswego County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1990, 6:43 PM EDT for Onondaga County, Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 62 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1990, 6:43 PM EDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1990, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
62 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 28, 7:20 PM EDTHail 0.75Onondaga, NY
Aug 28, 7:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Oswego, NY
Aug 28, 7:40 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Onondaga, NY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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 1990-08-28Temperature 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 1990-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 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
Aug 28, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WarningBTVCayuga, Onondaga45 min
Aug 28, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVMadison, Oneida66 min
Aug 28, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOnondaga, Oswego58 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.