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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Binghamton, NY

September 27, 1998Delaware County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 1998, 5:41 PM EDT for Delaware County, New York. It was in force for 49 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 27, 1998, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired
Sep 27, 1998, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Delaware County, NY

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 27, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 229 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 257 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 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
257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 9:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida77 min
Sep 26, 9:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCayuga, Onondaga77 min
Sep 27, 1:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChemung49 min
Sep 27, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTioga48 min
Sep 27, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBradford48 min
Sep 27, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSusquehanna65 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.