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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Burlington, VT

May 5, 1993Oneida County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1993, 6:31 PM EDT for Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 59 min.

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The facts

Issued
May 5, 1993, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1993, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

County Oneida County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 267 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1993-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 213 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1993-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 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
213 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVCayuga, Onondaga69 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.