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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 14, 1996Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1996, 2:45 PM EDT for Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 45 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
Jul 14, 1996, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Onondaga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 1996-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 1996-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 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
Jul 14, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTioga66 min
Jul 14, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan58 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.