Summary
- A significant severe weather event occurred across south-central New York on July 13, 2014.
- The environment was characterized by modest values of MLCAPE and large low-level shear and storm relative helicity.
- The values of MLCAPE and low-level shear and storm relative helicity in this case were consistent with previous tornadic events in our area.
- The storms that produced the tornadoes were low-topped mini-supercells, located 50-55 nm from the radar.
- For the Schuyler county tornado, strong rotation was only detectable at 0.5 degrees for one volume scan.Strong rotation was never detectable for the Sullivan county tornado.
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