Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 1993, 10:56 AM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1993, 10:56 AM EDT (14:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1993, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oswego County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 11:20 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Mexico, NY | An isolated severe thunderstorm moved along the northeast portion of Oswego County. The initial damage from the storm, determined to be caused by strong thunderstorm winds, occurred in Texas where a large tree was blown onto a house. The resident there also |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Bennington, Rutland | 69 min |
| Aug 2, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Rutland, Windsor | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 10:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Oswego | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 12:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Madison | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Oneida | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.