Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this tornado warning at Jul 29, 1993, 6:49 PM EDT for Madison County, New York. It was in force for 21 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1993, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1993, 7:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSYR 292251 TORSYR NYC053-292345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SYRACUSE NY 649 PM EDT THU JUL 29 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SYRACUSE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NEW YORK ...NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY AT 6;40 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD SOUTHEAST OF THE AIRPORT OVER THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF THE CITY OF SYRACUSE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A WIND GUST TO 64 MPH WAS REPORTED AT THE AIRPORT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN^ INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
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, Jul 29, 2:19 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
VTZALL-NYZ011-292000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 215 PM EDT THU JUL 22 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN VERMONT AND NORTHEAST NEW YORK... AT 200 PM...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST NEW YORK. THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD IN THE AREA. BY 300 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CROSS LAKE CHAMPLAIN FROM COOPERSVILLE TO ALBURG VERMONT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH MUCH OF ESSEX AND CLINTON COUNTIES IN NEW YORK. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER THE LOWER CHAMPLAIN VALLEY...IN RUTLAND COUNTY FROM FAIR HAVEN TO THE PITTSFORD AREA. A FEW DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHEAST COUNTIES OF VERMONT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...HAIL AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOtURS. IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ISSUED. WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. LAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton | 35 min |
| Jul 29, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BTV | Oneida | 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.