Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 1990, 7:30 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 45 min. 2 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, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1990, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Onondaga, NY | |
| Aug 28, 8:01 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Onondaga, 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1420 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Aug 28, 6:57 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
VTZALL-NY011-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 700 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE SPEEDING TOWARD NORTHEAST NEW YORK AND NORTHWEST VERMONT. AT 7 PM A GROUP OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST FROM EXTREME NORTHWEST NEW YORK STATE. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO nFRANKLIN AND ESSEX COUNTIES OF NEW YORK BY 730 PM AND INTO CLINTON COUNTY NEW YORK BETWEEN 745 AND 8 PM. IF STROMS APPROACH YOU...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. END/ADAMSON...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Onondaga, Oswego | 62 min |
| Aug 28, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Madison, Oneida | 66 min |
| Aug 28, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Onondaga, Oswego | 58 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.