Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 1, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at May 11, 1996, 5:19 PM EDT for Orange County, New York. It was in force for 26 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
- May 11, 1996, 5:19 PM EDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 5:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Warwick, NY | |
| May 11, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Goshen, 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 112119 TORNYC NYC071-112145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 519 PM EDT SAT MAY 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...ORANGE COUNTY AT 515 PM DOPPLER RADAR INICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADA MOVING THROUGH WESTERN ORANGE COUNTY NEAR THE STORM WAS 20 MILES WEST GOSHEN AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. 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 A0S A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 55 min |
| May 11, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland | 46 min |
| May 11, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 51 min |
| May 11, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York | 46 min |
| May 11, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 46 min |
| May 11, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 46 min |
| May 11, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 20 min |
| May 11, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau | 47 min |
| May 11, 6:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange, Westchester | 3 hr |
| May 11, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 40 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.