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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Burlington, VT

July 16, 2008St. Lawrence County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2008, 5:56 PM EDT for St. Lawrence County, New York. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 2008, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2008, 6:44 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Storm-based polygon

County St. Lawrence County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 168 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 157 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVSt. Lawrence53 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.