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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 28, 1990Otsego County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1990, 8:30 PM EDT for Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports 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: Aug 28, 1990, 8:30 PM EDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 1990, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Otsego 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
Aug 28, 9:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Otsego, NY
Aug 28, 9:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Otsego, 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 1708 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 6.8

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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, 5:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

NYZ003-006-010-282245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
535 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 1990

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BROOME...TIOGA...CHENANGO...CHEMUNG...
CORTLAND...SCHUYLER...TOMPKINS...AND STUEBEN COUNTIES OF NEW YORK UNTIL 11 PM...
A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS ALONG THE YATES...ONTARIO COUNTY LINE
NEAR BRISTOL SPRINGS.  THIS STORM MAY ALSO CONTAIN STRONG WINDS AND HAIL.
IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL PASS OVER KEUKA LAKE..AS WELL
AS ALONG THE YATES...STUEBEN COUNTY LINE DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

THIS STORM WAS THE MAIN FEATURE IN AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMSNORTHWEST OF A JAMESTOWN...SENECA FALLS.)..TO WATERTOWN LINE.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IN A STRONG BUILDING.
FRANKLIN/CHAMPNEY

Special weather statement, Aug 28, 6:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

NYZ004-005-282300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SYRACUSE NY
605 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 1990

       ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CAYUGA COUNTY...

AT 600 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CAYUGA COUNTY.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF
AN AREA EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL LAKE ONTARIO...SOUTHEAST TO CAYUGA
COUNTY.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTOqRMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

JUNG

Special weather statement, Aug 28, 6:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

NYZ003-006-010-282245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
630 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 1990

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BROOME...TIOGA...CHENANGO...CHEMUNG...
CORTLAND...SCHUYLER...TOMPKINS...AND STUEBEN COUNTIES OF NEW YORK UNTIL 11 PM...
AT 630 PM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...STRONG
WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE NEAR NAPLES IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO COUNTY...AND
NEAR KEUKA LAKE...FROM KEUKA PARK TO BRANCHPORT IN YATES COUNTY.  THEY WERE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH...AND THESE STORMS WILL BRUSH NORTHERN STUEBEN...
NORTHERN SCHUYLER...AND NORTHERN TOMPKINS COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

THESE STORMS WERE THE MAIN FEATURE IN AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS NORTHWEST OF A JAMESTOWN...TO ITHACA...TO SYRACUSE LINE.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IN A STRONG BUILDpING.

FRANKLIN/CHAMPNEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	69 min
Aug 28, 8:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Cortland	60 min
Aug 28, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango	61 min
Aug 28, 9:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	67 min
Aug 28, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.