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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 31, 1998Cayuga County, Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1998, 11:48 AM EDT for Cayuga County, Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 72 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 31, 1998, 11:48 AM EDT (15:48 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1998, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 72 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 31, 12:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Conquest, NY

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 31, 9:00 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 31, 10:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 10:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 8:22 AM EDT, 3 hours 26 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
May 31, 11:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Seneca, Yates	72 min
May 31, 12:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	76 min
May 31, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	63 min
May 31, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Seneca, Yates	61 min
May 31, 2:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Tompkins	64 min
May 31, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga	65 min
May 31, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	62 min
May 31, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Schuyler	63 min
May 31, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung	64 min
May 31, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Madison	63 min
May 31, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	62 min
May 31, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango	61 min
May 31, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	65 min
May 31, 4:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben	62 min
May 31, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	62 min
May 31, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	49 min
May 31, 4:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Tioga	78 min
May 31, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cortland	63 min
May 31, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Madison	61 min
May 31, 5:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Steuben	62 min
May 31, 5:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Schuyler	62 min
May 31, 5:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Broome	64 min
May 31, 5:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Chenango	64 min
May 31, 6:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Otsego	61 min
May 31, 6:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Broome, Delaware	63 min
May 31, 6:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	63 min
May 31, 6:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Broome	67 min
May 31, 6:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Seneca	2 hr
May 31, 7:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Delaware	65 min
May 31, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	61 min
May 31, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	61 min
May 31, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	78 min
May 31, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne	76 min
May 31, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Bradford	65 min
May 31, 6:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Luzerne	63 min
May 31, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna	64 min
May 31, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Pike, Wayne	65 min
May 31, 7:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Pike, Wayne	63 min
May 31, 7:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Pike, Wayne	63 min
May 31, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	62 min
May 31, 7:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Lackawanna	64 min

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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.