Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1997, 1:31 PM EDT for Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 59 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
- Jul 3, 1997, 1:31 PM EDT (17:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1997, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otsego County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 1:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartwick, NY | The severe thunderstorm that prouduced wind damage earlier in Seneca and Chenango counties continued to plow eastward through Otsego county. The cell maintained its severe intensity as it did so. Shortly before and around 200 pm, numerous trees and utility p |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 10:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Seneca | 42 min |
| Jul 3, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cortland | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 62 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.