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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 22, 1994Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1994, 5:08 PM EDT for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 37 min.

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The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1994, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1994, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Luzerne County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 245 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 1994-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 445 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1994-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
445 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLackawanna28 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.