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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Burlington, VT

July 29, 1993Madison County, New York

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1993-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 262 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1993-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
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

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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.
 
 
 
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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVClinton35 min
Jul 29, 6:58 PM EDTTornado WarningBTVOneida47 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.