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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Albany, NY

July 21, 2003Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2003, 9:27 PM EDT for Bennington County, Vermont. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 21, 2003, 9:27 PM EDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2003, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Bennington County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 21, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 71 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 347 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 418 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.6
Supercell composite: 21.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

198 
WFUS51 KALY 220127
TORALY
VTC003-220215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
927 PM EDT MON JUL 21 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BENNINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 921 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO AT ANY TIME NEAR NORTH POWNAL...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF BENNINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WOODFORD STATE PARK AND SHAFTSBURY AT 935 PM EDT
  ARLINGTON AT 940 PM EDT
  SUNDERLAND AT 945 PM EDT
  MANCHESTER CENTER AND MANCHESTER AT 950 PM EDT
  BONDVILLE AT 955 PM EDT
  PERU AT 1000 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
THE BUILDING. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER.

$$
MAGLARAS/WASULA

LAT...LON 4312 7286 4312 7299 4292 7298 4280 7310
          4277 7329 4295 7329 4307 7315 4332 7293
          4326 7284

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Bennington	60 min
Jul 21, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Windham	53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.