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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 10, 1996Chemung County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 6:10 PM EDT for Chemung County, New York. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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: May 10, 1996, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Chemung County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 10, 7:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmira, 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBGM 102211
SVRBGM
NYC015-102315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
610 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
 
   ...CHEMUNG COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RARAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING CHEMUNG COUNTY. THE
STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR PINE VALLEY BY 620
PM...BIG FLATS AROUND 630 PM...AND VAN ETTEN AROUND 645 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRI<CAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Yates	49 min
May 10, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Seneca	53 min
May 10, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga	47 min
May 10, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Tompkins	64 min
May 10, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	57 min
May 10, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cortland	62 min
May 10, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	40 min
May 10, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison	59 min
May 10, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango	66 min
May 10, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	57 min
May 10, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	56 min
May 10, 7:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Tioga	3 hr
May 10, 7:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Schuyler	3 hr
May 10, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	64 min
May 10, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.