Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT for Essex County, New York. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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 26, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1997, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Essex County, NY
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Mineville, 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 KBTV 262017 RRA SVRBTV NYC031-262115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 415 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON VT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH NEW YORK ...EASTERN ESSEX COUNTY AND ADJACENT LAKE CHAMPLAIN AT 415 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MINEVILLE NEW YORK. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL APRROACH PORT HENRY BY 445 PM AND WILL CROSS LAKE CHAMPLAIN AROUND 5 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FHOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS...DOORS...AND OUTSIDE WALLS. SLW/SFH
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 26, 2:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 2 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 1997 TCU DVLPG OVR THE GREEN MTNS SO INCLD CHC OF AN AFTN SHWR IN MPV TAF. OTRW CI/AC SPRDG INTO WRN NY. MODELS CONT TREND WITH H5 S/W MOVG ACRS SRN CANADA TNGT WITH VORT LOBE MOVG ACRS WRN NY WED. AS TROF BCMS ESTABLISHED...EXPECT UNSTLD WX WED NGT/THURS. ASOCD SFC LOW TRACKS ACRS JAMES BAY RGN BY 24 HRS AND THEN CONTS TO MOV E SLOWLY THEREAFTR. THE ASOCD CDFNT MOVS INTO WRN NY WED AFTN/EVE APRCHNG VT LATR WED NGT. BEST CHC OF TSTMS OUR CWA DURG THE LATE AFTN/ERLY NGT ON WED. AMT OF CLD COVER AND HEATING WL DETERMINE THEIR STRENGTH. IN THE SHORT TERM...CLDS WILL THICKEN OVRNGT. PCPN WHICH REACHES THE AREA ERLY WED MRNG SHUD BE LIGHT AND SHOWERY. PRESENT TIMING LKS REASONABLE...TWDS MRNG NRN NY AND ARND DAYBREAK IN VT. FWC SEEMS REASONABLE...70S OR 75-80 FOR HIS WED...AND LOWS ARND 60...60-65 CHMPLN VLY...AND MID 70S THURS. NGM WETTER THAN ETA AS NOTED ON BUFKIT...LEAN TWD ETA IN THIS SITUATION. SFH
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.