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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 18, 1990Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1990, 12:56 PM EDT for Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1990, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1990, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, PA

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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAVP 181656
SVRAVP
PAC127-181800-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PA
1256 PM EDT MON JUN 18 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF PENNSYLVANIA
      WAYNE

AT (100 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN WAYNE COUNTY.
THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND...HAIL...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AROUND 40 MPH.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS
SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  ONCE
INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

 MJ

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 18, 10:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

NYZ003-006-010-181600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1030 AM EDT MON JUN 18 1990

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM FOR STEUBEN...
CHEMUNG...SCHUYLER...TOMPKINS...CORTLAND...TIOGA...BROOME...CHENANGO...
OTSEGO...DELAWARE...

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS...AND GUSTY WINDS WAS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL NEW YORK.  THE
THUNDERSTORMS STRETCEHED FROM NORTH CENTRAL CORTLAND COUNTY...SOUTHWEST
ACROOSS THE CITIES OF CORTLAND...ITHACA...AND WATKINS GLEN...TO EXTREME
SOUTHWESTERN STEUBEN COUNTY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCE EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN IN A
SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.  CORTLAND COUNTY SKYWARN REPORTED NEARLY 1 INCH OF
RAIN IN THE STORM.  ONE HALF INCH FELL IN BATH DURING THE LAST HOUR.

AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST AT 45 MPH...THEY MAY PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW
LYING AREAS.  ALSO...LIGHTNING STIKES MAY CAUSE DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER
LINES.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO NORTHWESTERN CHEMUNG...SOUTHERN
TOMPKINS AND CORTLAND...AND NORTHWESTERN CHENANGO COUNTIES BEFORE 1130 AM.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERTORMS WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA.

PLEASE WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER...AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...
OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

MORFORD

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:47 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

NYZ003-006-010-181700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1130 AM EDT MON JUN 18 1990

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM FOR STEUBEN...
CHEMUNG...SCHUYLER...TOMPKINS...CORTLAND...TIOGA...BROOME...CHENANGO...
OTSEGO...AND DELAWARE COUNTIES OF NEW YORK...

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND EVEN SMALL HAIL CONTINUES TO MARCH THROUGH
CENTRAL NEW YORK.

THE LINE STRETCHED FROM NORTH CENTRAL CHENNANGO COUNTY...SOUTHWEST OVER
NORWICH...TO THE BROOME CORTLAND COUNTY LINE...THEN THROUGH TIOGA COUNTY
JUST NORTH OF OWEGO...TO JUST SOUTH OF ELMIRA.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES CAUSING
DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES...AS WELL AS TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS.
.
THE THUNDERSTORM LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND IS EXPECTED
TO BE OVER THE TRIPLE CITIES...OWEGO...AND BAINBRIDGE BEFORE 1230 PM.

IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN
A REINFORCED BUILDING.  AFTER THE STORM PASSES...STAY AWAY FROM DOWNED POWER
LINES...AND NEVER CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS ON FOOT OR IN YOUR CAR.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA.

PLEASE WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER...AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...
OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIOLNS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

MORFORD

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

PAZ007-181800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON PA
1200 PM EDT MON JUNE 18 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS STILL IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 200 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON.  IN
NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...THE WATCH INCLUDES SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
WILL EXIST UNTIL 200 PM EDT IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.

AT 1155 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT VERY
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER TIOGA AND BRADFORD COUNTIES OF
NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.  THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH.
THESE STORMS SHOULD BE MOVING INTO PARTS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
INCLUDING SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY...DURING THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.  THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL...HIGH WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA..b.SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION AS ANY HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING
OF ROADWAYS.

THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 200 PM EDT...OR SOONER IF
NEEDED.

JUREWICZ/WSO WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON

Local storm report, Jun 18, 12:24 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SYRACUSE NY
1215 PM EDT MON JUN 18 1990

         ...THUNDERSTORMS OF JUN 18 1990...

0918 EDT...TREE BRANCHES DOWN IN HANNIBAL (OSWEGO COUNTY)
0922 EDT...TREES DOWN ON HOUSE 118 MAIN ST VILLAGE OF BROWNVILLE
           (JEFFERSON).  EXTENSIVE DAMAGE THROUGHOUT VILLAGE...STATE
           OF EMERGENCY DECLARED...1 INJURY.
0927 EDT...TREE AND WIRES DOWN NEAR RT 3 AND 104 MEXICO (OSWEGO).
0932 EDT...TREES DOWN VILLAGE OF EVANS MILLS (JEFFERSON).  PEOPLE
           TRAPPED IN CARS BY FALLING WIRES IN PHILADELPHIA AND CAMBELLS
           POINT (JEFFERSON).
0950 EDT...TREES DOWN ADAMS CENTER...TREE ON A HOUSE 3 MILE BAY (JEFFERSON)
           TRAILER BLOWN OVER (NOT SURE OF LOCATION WITHIN JEFFERSON CTY)
1001 EDT...TREES AND WIRES DOWN RT 12 NORTH OF LOWVILLE (LEWIS)
1008 EDT...TREES DOWN ON A HOUSE HIGGINSVILLE RD, VIENNA (ONEIDA)
1010 EDT...TREES DOWN NUMBER 3 RD LOWVILLE (LEWIS)
1012 EDT...TREES DOWN CITY OF ROME (ONEIDA)
1015 EDT...TREES DOWN...HIGH WINDS VILLAGE OF CANTON (ST LAWRENCE)
1016 EDT...TREE DOWN RT 26 NORTH OF LOWVILLE.
1019 EDT...TREE DOWN VILLAGE OF NEW BREMEN (LEWIS)
1030 EDT...TREES DOWN LEE CENTER (ONEIDA)
1030 EDT...LARGE BNRANCHES AND WIRES DOWN 102 S COURT ST WAMPSVILLE
           (MADISON) AND ROUTE 5 WEST OF COURT ST.
     ...REPORTS STILL COMING IN...

END/BARTHOLF

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 12:29 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

NYZ004-005-150300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SYRACUSE NY
1230 PM EDT MON JUN 18 1990

     ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF CENTRAL NEW YORK...

WEATHER RADAR AT 1215 PM E

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 12:50 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

NYZ003-006-010-181800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1230 PM EDT MON JUN 18 1990

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM FOR STEUBEN...
CHEMUNG...SCHUYLER...TOMPKINS...CORTLAND...TIOGA...BROOME...CHENANGO...
OTSEGO...AND DELAWARE COUNTIES OF NEW YORK...

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN A LINE FROM THE ADIRONDACKS OF NEW YORK...TO
NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.  OVER CENTRAL NEW YORK...THE THUNDERSTORMS
STRETCHED FROM JUST NORTH OF COOPERSTOWN...SOUTHWEST ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA
RIVER...TO JUST EAST OF THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON.

OTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WWRE OVER NORTHERN BROOME AND NORTHERN TIOGA
COUNTIES.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD MOVE
INTO EASTERN BROOME AND MUCH OF DELAWARE COUNTY BY 130 PM.
.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING THROUGHOUT CENTRAL NEW YORK.  IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH
OF THESE STORMS...BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER AS THE TREATENING WEATHER
APROACHES.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA.

PLEASE WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER...AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...
OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

MORFORD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 12:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	85 min

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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.