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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 27, 1995Lackawanna County, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 1:54 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1995, 1:54 PM EDT (17:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1995, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 256 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1169 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 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
1169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan61 min
Jul 27, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBradford53 min
Jul 27, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSusquehanna66 min
Jul 27, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMWayne69 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.