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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 7, 1989Cortland County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1989, 5:03 PM EDT for Cortland County, New York. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1989, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1989, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Cortland 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

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 1989-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 50 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 1989-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware63 min
Jul 7, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango58 min
Jul 7, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSchuyler, Tompkins64 min
Jul 7, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSteuben60 min
Jul 7, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChemung20 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.