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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Albany, NY

May 24, 2004Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 7:49 PM EDT for Windham County, Vermont. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2004, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -444 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KALY 242349
TORALY
VTC025-250015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
749 PM EDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WINDHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BRATTLEBORO

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 746 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  WILMINGTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF BRATTLEBORO...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GUILFORD CENTER BY 810 PM EDT
  BRATTLEBORO AND VERNON BY 815 PM EDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4294 7289 4276 7289 4274 7239 4296 7239

$$

GM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 6:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Bennington	46 min
May 24, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Windham	46 min
May 24, 7:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Bennington	110 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.