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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 28, 1990Steuben County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1990, 3:10 AM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 28, 1990, 3:10 AM EDT (07:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 1990, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Steuben 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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 663 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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, Aug 28, 1:29 AM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Seneca, Yates	40 min
Aug 28, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Seneca, Yates	59 min
Aug 28, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Tompkins	56 min
Aug 28, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	56 min
Aug 28, 7:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Tompkins	69 min
Aug 28, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.