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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 6, 1994Ontario County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 2:27 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1994, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1994, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Ontario County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1994-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 362 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 1994-07-06The 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
362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLivingston38 min
Jul 6, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSteuben57 min
Jul 6, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMWyoming42 min
Jul 6, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLuzerne64 min
Jul 6, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSusquehanna40 min
Jul 6, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMColumbia60 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.