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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Binghamton, NY

September 7, 1998Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 12:15 PM EDT for Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 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: Sep 7, 1998, 12:15 PM EDT (16:15 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 1998, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, PA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 7, 10:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 242 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 Sep 7, 9:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 9:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 7, 7:56 AM EDT, 4 hours 19 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
Sep 7, 12:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca, Yates	58 min
Sep 7, 12:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	58 min
Sep 7, 1:05 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	60 min
Sep 7, 1:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	60 min
Sep 7, 1:34 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Madison, Onondaga	56 min
Sep 7, 1:48 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Oneida	47 min
Sep 7, 1:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Otsego	62 min
Sep 7, 2:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	60 min
Sep 7, 2:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware	64 min
Sep 7, 3:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Steuben	64 min
Sep 7, 3:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tompkins	64 min
Sep 7, 3:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben, Tioga	64 min
Sep 7, 3:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	65 min
Sep 7, 4:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	65 min
Sep 7, 5:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	63 min
Sep 7, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	74 min
Sep 7, 3:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	66 min
Sep 7, 4:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	62 min
Sep 7, 10:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	77 min
Sep 7, 11:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne, Wyoming	78 min
Sep 7, 11:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	76 min
Sep 7, 11:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.