Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 15, 1997Oneida County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1997, 5:28 PM EDT for Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 62 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 15, 1997, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 1997, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Oneida County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 15, 5:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Verona, NY	The same severe storm that caused damage in Madison county ripped through central Oneida county, producing additional and widespread wind damage. The storm first affected the towns of Verona and Camden, downing numerous large trees which blocked many roads

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 (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 1020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 15, 1:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 1:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
125 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1997

>>>WILL GET THIS OUT ERLY AS CONVECTION DEVELOPING<<<

SCT CONVECTION BEGINNING TO FIRE ACRS THE REGION. SCT CELLS ACRS THE
WRN CATSKILLS WITH GREATER CVRG TO OUR WEST WHERE LAKE BREEZE FROM ERIE
HAS AIDED DVLPMNT. MESOS SHOW BEST INSTAB/MSTR ACRS CNTRL NYS...ISOLD
SHORTLIVED CELLS HAVE DVLPD ACRS THIS AREA.

PREFER THE NGM'S DEPICTION OF STABILITY/KINEMATIC FIELDS. ACTIVITY
SHOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACRS WRN NYS AND WORK INTO CNTRL AND ERN
ZONES. XPCT THAT CONVECTION WILL LAST WELL INTO THE EVNG HRS WITH
UPSTREAM S/WV STILL APRCHNG. MDLS SHOW BEST MSTR CONVERGENCE ACRS ERN
ZONES AFTER 06Z AND WILL NOT TIME ACTIVITY THERE. FOR WRN ZONES BASED
ON XPCTD MVMNT OF THE WEAK SFC TROF WILL LEAVE IN ACTIVITY TIL ARND
MIDNIGHT. ALTHO WIND FIELDS ARE WEAK PULSE TYPE SEVERE REMAINS PSBL THRU
THE EVNG HRS...MAIN THREAT WET MICROBURSTS AND WILL LEAVE IN MENTION OF
HEAVY DOWNPOURS TNGT AS STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVERS.

MOSTLY SUNNY AND A LTL LESS HUMID TMRW. SEE POTNL FOR ISOLD
ACTIVITY...SPCLY WRN CATSKILLS AND FAR NE PA BUT BELOW THRESHOLD FOR
MENTIONING. DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF THE ETA'S DEPICTION OF XTRM
INSTAB TRYING TO MOVE INTO WRN NYS TMRW NGT. ATTM WAS PLANNING PARTLY
CLOUDY FOR THE SRN TIER AND PARTLY SUNNY ON THU. MAY SEE AN MCS TRYING
TO FIRE OVER MI AND HEAD EWD INTO WRN NYS LATE TMRW NIGHT BUT PREFER TO
WAIT ON THIS.

ZONES SHORTLY.

.BGM...NONE.

BRADY

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-
043-044-047-048-152310-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
210 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1997

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL NEW
YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING WITHIN A HOT...HUMID AND VERY
UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. AS
THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS.

ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...A FEW STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS
WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. MINOR FLOODING OF
SMALL STREAMS AND ROADWAYS CAN BE EXPECTED WITHIN THE STRONGER STORMS.

BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE OFFICIAL VOICE OF THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE...FOR THE LATEST UPDATES.

BRADY/KUHL

Local storm report, Jul 15, 5:05 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	45 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.