Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1997, 6:33 PM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 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 8, 1997, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1997, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bradford County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 8, 2:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 215 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1997 RADAR AND SAT LOOPS SHOW CONVECTION FIRING ALG AND JUST S OF WARM FRNT WITH AXIS OF GREATEST THETA ADVECTION AND MCON. AS THESE PARAMETERS WORK THEIR WAY NEWD THIS EVE AND GET A BIT OF AID FROM VORT LOBE PASSING THRU...XPCT SHWRS/TSTMS TO DVLP ACRS THE SRN TIER. BEST CHC FOR ANY STG STORMS WILL BE OVR NRN PA/XTREME WRN PTNS OF THE FA WHERE HIEST INSTAB AND SHEAR PROFILES CO-EXIST. LTR TNT...FOCUS WILL SHIFT TO OUR NRN ZNS IN THE OVERRUNNING REGIME N OF THE LL BNDRY. POS THETA-E BULLSEYE WILL BE OVR THIS AREA AS WELL. EMPHASIZED MAINLY EVE ACTIVITY OVR MUCH OF THE SRN TIER. POPS DIMINISH TO CHC CATEGORY IN THE CATSK FURTHEST AWAY FROM UL SUPPORT. WED...ETA HAS COME IN A LTL SLOWER THIS RUN WITH MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FRNT. THIS IS MORE IN LINE WITH THE OTHER MODELS. IN FACT...WUDN/T BE SURPRISED TO SEE THE SYS PROGRESS EVEN SLOWER THAN PROGGED WITH LOTS OF ENERGY DROPPING INTO THE TROF AXIS AND FRNT ALIGNED PARALLEL TO MID LVL FLOW. WILL TIME FROPA DURING THE MIDDAY AND ERLY AFTN HRS WRN SXNS AND NOT TIL THE ERLY EVE IN THE CATSK/POCONOS. GOOD UL SUPPORT WILL BE IN PLACE WITH RR QUAD LIFT FROM 3H JET AND APPCH OF STG SHRT WV. INTENSITY AND NATURE OF THE PRE-FRNTL ACTIVITY WILL DEPEND TO A LRG XTENT ON HOW MUCH SS WE SEE. THINK BEST CHC FOR THIS WILL BE S AND E OF BGM. WILL GO ALG WITH LKLY GUIDANCE POPS THIS PD. WED NGT AND THU...THINGS DRY OUT FROM W TO E. I/LL CARRY LINGERING POPS FAR ERN ZNS ERLY THU NGT. MODEL SNDGS SHOW POST-FRNTL SC FOR SVRL HRS THU NGT...THEN CLRG TAKES PLACE ALL AREAS BY FRI AM. P/SNY WILL BE THE SKY COVER OF CHOICE FRI WITH UL TROF/COLD POOL SLOW TO DEPART. ZNS WIBIS SHORTLY. .BGM...NONE. JUREWICZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Bradford | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 7:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Bradford | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 68 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.