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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Binghamton, NY

September 2, 1990Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1990, 6:12 PM EDT for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 1990, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 1990, 6:55 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Luzerne 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

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 230 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, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1990-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1990-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1209 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 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
Sep 2, 1:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTompkins59 min
Sep 2, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTioga61 min
Sep 2, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware, Otsego56 min
Sep 2, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware59 min
Sep 2, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLackawanna, Luzerne55 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.