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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 21, 1996Sullivan County, New York; Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1996, 1:19 PM EDT for Sullivan County, New York; Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 56 min. 3 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
May 21, 1996, 1:19 PM EDT (17:19 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Sullivan County, NY, Pike County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 21, 1:45 PM EDTThunderstorm WindBlooming Grove, PA
May 21, 1:50 PM EDTThunderstorm WindLumberville, NY
May 21, 1:55 PM EDTThunderstorm WindMilford, PA

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

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 1996-05-21Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -111 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
1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 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 21, 12:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan43 min
May 21, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne55 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.