Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1988, 1:55 PM EDT for Tioga County, New York. It was in force for 65 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
- Jul 17, 1988, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1988, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tioga 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Tioga, 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
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBGM 171755
SVRBGM
NYC107-171900-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
155 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
TIOGA
AT 1245 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN TIOGA
COUNTY...NEW YORK.
WINDS OF 54 MPH WERE NOTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH THE
ELMIRA AREA.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING.
GET TO A SHELTERED PLACE FAST IF THE WEATHER LOOKS THREATENING.
HIGH WINDS WILL DOWN BRANCHES AND POWERLINES...AND MAY UPROOT
TREES. SO STAY OUT OF SPOTS WHERE FALLING DEBRIS COULD BE
DANGEROUS.
END/DLEWhat 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, Jul 17, 11:55 AM EDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1145 AM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED INTO NORTHWEST STEUBEN COUNTY IN NEW YORK/S SOUTHERN TIER REGION. HEAVIER RAINS REMAIN TO THE NORTH NEAR SENECA FALLS...GENEVA AND PENN YAN. THIS VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NEAR AUBURN...WATKINS GLEN AND BATH BY 1230 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BY ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN FLOODING AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO REGION OF NEW YORK...ACROSS LAKE ONTARIO...OVER THE FINGER LKAES REGION INTO ELK COUNTY PEuNNSYLVANIA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD EAST ACROSS SCHUYLER ...CHEMUNG AND TOMPKINS COUNTIES BY 1230 PM THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 12:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1240 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE NEAR SYRACUSE TO ITHACA AND WATKINS GLEN AND NORTH OF CORNING NEW YORK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL MOVE EAST TO TULLY... CORTLAND AND ELMIRA BY 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BY ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN FLOODING AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND EASTWARD FROM LAKE ONTARIO INTO THE ADIRONDACKS AND SOUTHWARD FROM EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO INTO POTTER COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:22 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1220 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...AND MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA... FROM 130 PM EDT UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS INCLUDES SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK COUNTIES OF...CHEMUNG...TOMPKINS ...CORTLAND...CHENANGO...OTSEGO...TIOGA...BROOME...AND DELAWARE. LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTENING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTROM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:37 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME ONLY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 120 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...AND MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA... FROM 130 PM EDT UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS INCLUDES SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK COUNTIES OF...CHEMUNG...TOMPKINS ...CORTLAND...CHENANGO...OTSEGO...TIOGA...BROOME...AND DELAWARE. LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTENING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTROM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:39 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON PA 140 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING FOR ALL OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA..... LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SAFE SHELTER AT ONCE. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOPOE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PETROSKY WSO/AVP
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:53 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 145 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 TWO LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SOUTHERN TIER AT 130 PM THIS AFTERNOON. ONE WAS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORWICH AND THE OTHER ABOUT 5 SOUTHEAST OF ELMIRA. AS THE STROM WENT THROUGH ELMIRA WIND GUSTS OF 54 MILES AN HOUR. BOTH OF THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. THESE STORMS CLOUD ALSO CAUSE URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. ONE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN TIOGA COUNTY NEAR NICHOLS AND THE OTHER WILL BE NEAR NORWICH BETWEEN 100 AND 130 PM THIS AFTERNOON. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND ACROSS THE ADIRONDACKS TO LAKE ONTARIO AND MORE FROM EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO SOUTH BETWEEN BATH AND BINGHAMTON INTO LYCOMING COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA. . THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN TIER AND CATSKILLS UNTIL 800 PM TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 45 min |
| Jul 16, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
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.