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Tornado Warning 9, NWS New York, NY

July 26, 1995Westchester County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 1995, 1:51 PM EDT for Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1995, 1:51 PM EDT (17:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1995, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 1995-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1773 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
1773 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 261755
TORNYC
NYC119-261900-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
151 PM EDT WED JUL 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
 
   ...SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY
 
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTCHESTER COUNTY HAS BEEN
UPGRADED TO A TORNADO WARNING. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR
INDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO ASSOCIATED WITH THIS EXTREMELY
DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM.
 
THIS STORM IS CURRENTLY OVER THE HUDSON RIVER JUST NORTH OF
YONKERS IN THE VICINTY OF HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH TOWARDS WHITE PLAINS.
 
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 B/LANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
MCKILLOP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland, Westchester66 min
Jul 26, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXWestchester66 min
Jul 26, 5:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXWestchester2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.