Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 5:20 PM EDT for St. Lawrence County, New York. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports 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 15, 1996, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County St. Lawrence County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Madrid, NY | |
| Aug 15, 6:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Massena, NY |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 337 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
- 944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.