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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 15, 1992Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1992, 5:56 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 49 min.

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The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1992, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1992, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Lackawanna County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
489 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMColumbia66 min
Jul 15, 2:48 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMColumbia57 min
Jul 15, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLuzerne60 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.