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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 20, 1986Livingston County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1986, 9:05 AM EDT for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 1986, 9:05 AM EDT (13:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1986, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Livingston County, NY

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 1986-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2381 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 1986-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 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
2381 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
5.3

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The text

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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.