Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 1991, 7:15 PM EDT for Seneca County, Yates County, New York. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 1991, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1991, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Seneca County, NY, Yates County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KROC 092316
TORROC
NYC099-123-100000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER NY
715 PM EDT TUE APR 9 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
EASTERN YATES AND SOUTHERN SENECA
AT 710 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR IN WESTERN
YATES COUNTY, NEW YORK. TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED
WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
ENGLISHWhat 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, Apr 9, 7:12 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
NYZ004-005-100000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SYRACUSE NY 710 PM EDT TUE APR 9 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING CENTRAL NEW YORK... AT 700 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE WESTERN FINGER LAKES REGION. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH AND SHOULD BE MOVING INTO CAYUGA COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE RAPIDLY THROUGH MOST OF CENTRAL NEW YORK DURING THE EVENING TONIGHT. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL NEW YORK UNTIL 1AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING. PERSONS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JUNG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Livingston, Ontario | 55 min |
| Apr 9, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 66 min |
| Apr 9, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Ontario, Yates | 60 min |
| Apr 9, 7:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Steuben | 56 min |
| Apr 9, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Schuyler | 47 min |
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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.