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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 11, 1996Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1996, 4:43 PM EDT for Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1996, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 1996-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 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 1996-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 2:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMChemung3 hr
May 10, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSusquehanna, Wayne64 min
May 11, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLuzerne46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.