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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Burlington, VT

July 17, 2010Clinton County, Essex County, Franklin County, New York

NWS Burlington, VT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2010, 7:52 PM EDT for Clinton County, Essex County, Franklin County, New York. It was in force for 53 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 17, 2010, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2010, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Burlington, VT
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Clinton County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 60 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2010-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2010-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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 17, 3:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBTVCaledonia62 min
Jul 17, 4:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBTVCaledonia65 min
Jul 17, 5:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBTVSt. Lawrence64 min
Jul 17, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBTVFranklin51 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.