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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 20, 1993Broome County, Tioga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1993, 6:12 PM EDT for Broome County, Tioga County, New York. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 20, 1993, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 1993, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Broome County, NY, Tioga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 232 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1993-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 311 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1993-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLivingston55 min
Aug 20, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCortland31 min
Aug 20, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango68 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.