Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 29, 1995Cortland County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 2:18 PM EDT for Cortland County, New York. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Cortland County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 303 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
488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
303 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
366 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

Special weather statement, May 29, 10:34 AM EDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-
043-044-047-048-291800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1035 AM EDT MON MAY 29 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS
CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...

A COLD FRONT ACROSS EASTERN OHIO THIS MORNING WILL MOVE EAST INTO
CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...THE SUN HAS BROKEN OUT ACROSS THE
CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER FINGER LAKES AND WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY OF NEW
YORK. THE SUN WILL MAKE AN APPEARANCE BY NOON ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA
REGION OF NEW YORK AND MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INCLUDING THE
SCRANTON WILKES BARRE AREA...WITH THE WESTERN CATSKILLS AND THE POCONOS
SEEING PARTLY SUNNY SKIES BY 200 PM.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT
TODAY...AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. AT
THIS TIME THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPEARS TO BE
ACROSS NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA AND THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN
TIER...SUSQUEHANNA REGION AND WESTERN CATSKILLS OF NEW YORK.

PERSONS PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TODAY SHOULD CHECK THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY FOR SIGNS OF THREATENING
WEATHER. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST SHORT TERM
FORECASTS AS WELL AS ANY SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS THAT MAY
BE ISSUED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

WALDSTREICHER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTompkins53 min
May 29, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango42 min
May 29, 4:15 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMChenango60 min
May 29, 4:30 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMOtsego60 min
May 29, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan76 min
May 29, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware58 min
May 29, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMWyoming40 min
May 29, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLackawanna, Wayne42 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.