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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 29, 1998Wyoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 4:26 PM EDT for Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 79 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: May 29, 1998, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 79 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 29, 5:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Osterhout, PA	A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Wyoming County during the afternoon and knocked down trees and wires 2 miles northeast of Osterhout at 5:00 pm and in Evans Falls at 5:10 pm EDT.

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
May 29, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -198 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 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 May 29, 2:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours 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
May 29, 1:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	47 min
May 29, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	64 min
May 29, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	62 min
May 29, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca	64 min
May 29, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Yates	64 min
May 29, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Tompkins	61 min
May 29, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Onondaga	62 min
May 29, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cortland	64 min
May 29, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	77 min
May 29, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	77 min
May 29, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango	78 min
May 29, 2:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	75 min
May 29, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Tompkins	45 min
May 29, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	80 min
May 29, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	64 min
May 29, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	93 min
May 29, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	61 min
May 29, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	75 min
May 29, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	72 min
May 29, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	64 min
May 29, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	90 min
May 29, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	62 min
May 29, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Pike	78 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.