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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 15, 1995Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 5:06 PM EDT for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
69 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 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -253 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
89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-289 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1234 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-300 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, 5:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSeneca, Yates62 min
Jul 15, 5:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCayuga, Onondaga62 min
Jul 15, 5:22 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison, Oneida53 min
Jul 15, 5:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCortland, Tompkins59 min
Jul 15, 5:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOtsego51 min
Jul 15, 5:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango61 min
Jul 15, 6:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Tioga30 min
Jul 15, 6:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware65 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.