Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1986, 7:23 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1986, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1986, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ontario County, NY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Ontario, NY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 553 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
430 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100PM EDT TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE IN EASTERN BERKS AAND EASTERN PIKE COUNTIES IN
PENNSYLVANIA..AND ALONG THE NEW YORK..VERMONT BORDER EAST OF GLENS
FALLS.
THEY WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT
EXTENDED FROM KINGSTON IN THE HUDSON VALLEY..SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE
POCONOS TO NEAR READING PENNSYLVANIA.
THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
&Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:04 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 700PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS BEARING DOWN ON NEW YORKS SOUTHERN TIER. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN..STRONG..GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WERE MOVING THROUGH LIVINGSTON AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES OF NEW YORK. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO STEUBEN COUNTY BETWEEN 710 AND 730PM THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN HALF OF NEW YORK UNTIL 11PM TONIGHT. WHEELER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Livingston, Monroe | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Wayne | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 7:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Ontario | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.