Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1995

Tornado Warning 8, NWS New York, NY

July 23, 1995Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 1995, 6:24 PM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1995, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Suffolk County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 17 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 346 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 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 
TTAA00 KNYC 232225
TORNYC
NYC103-232315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
624 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
 
   ...WESTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
AT 620 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR EAST MEADOW.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND BE NEAR
WYANDANCH...DEER PARK AND BRENTWOOD BY 700 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UND.ER 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.
 
HAYES

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 5:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXBronx67 min
Jul 23, 5:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXNassau, Queens57 min
Jul 23, 5:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXNassau68 min
Jul 23, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNassau68 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.