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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

March 25, 1996Broome County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1996, 9:17 PM EST for Broome County, New York. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 1996, 9:17 PM EST (02:17 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1996, 10:15 PM EST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Broome County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 25, 9:30 PM ESTThunderstorm WindVestal, NY
Mar 25, 9:45 PM ESTThunderstorm WindChenango Bridge, NY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -211 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.