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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 29, 1995Otsego County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT for Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Otsego County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBGM 292029
TORBGM
NYC077-292130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
430 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
 
   ...OTSEGO COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN
EASTERN CHENANGO COUNTY AT 425 PM. SKYWARN OBSERVERS REPORTED A ROTATING
WALL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM IN CHENANGO COUNTY.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR GILBERTSVILLE
AND OTSEGO BY 440 PM...AND NEAR ONEONTA...MILFORD...AND HARTWICK BY
450 PM. THE STORM WILL BE NEAR WORCESTER AND SCHENEVUS BY 500 PM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
DELLICARPINI

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, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCortland57 min
May 29, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango42 min
May 29, 4:15 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMChenango60 min
May 29, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan76 min
May 29, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware58 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.