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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Burlington, VT

July 12, 1994Oswego County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1994, 6:45 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 45 min.

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The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1994, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1994, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Whole counties

County Oswego County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1994-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 273 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1395 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KBUF 122245
SVRBUF
NYC075-122330-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
645 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 1994

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......

IN  NEW YORK

   ...OSWEGO COUNTY

AT 645 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER
THE CENTRAL SQUARE/BREWERTON AREA OF OSWEGO COUNTY.  THE THUNDERSTORM
WAVE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.  LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
IN HOMES A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM IS THE SAFEST LOCATION.

LEVAN

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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.