Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 1990, 2:24 PM EDT for Chemung County, New York. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 18, 1990, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 1990, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chemung 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 248 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 7:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1990Every 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.