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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Burlington, VT

August 2, 1993Oneida County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1993, 12:35 PM EDT for Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1993, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1993, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
55 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, 4.6 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 1993-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1605 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 1993-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1605 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
6.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVBennington, Rutland69 min
Aug 2, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVRutland, Windsor64 min
Aug 2, 10:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVOswego59 min
Aug 2, 10:56 AM EDTTornado WarningBTVOswego34 min
Aug 2, 12:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVMadison55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.