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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 31, 1998Pike County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 7:07 PM EDT for Pike County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 min. 3 reports 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, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1998, 8:10 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 31, 8:08 PM EDT	Tornado F2	Blooming Grove, PA	The tornadic supercell that affected southern Wayne county a bit earlier in the evening continued eastward into Pike county. A tornado touched down briefly in Promised Land and then plowed through portions of Promised Land State Park before temporarily liftin
May 31, 8:20 PM EDT	Tornado F3	Pecks Pond, PA	The cell that produced tornadic damage earlier both in southern Wayne county and just upstream in Promised Land State Park dropped a tornado once again across the southern and southeastern portions of Pike county. A nearly continuous 20 mile path was uncovere
May 31, 8:20 PM EDT	Tornado F2	Blooming Grove, PA	A severe thunderstorm became tornadic just south of Interstate 84 and east of Tarey Hill in Blooming Grove township around 8:20 pm EDT. The tornado cut approximately a 3 mile by 200 yard path paralleling Interstate 84. The twister moved through heavily

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, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 31, 5:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

229 
WFUS1 KBGM 312308 RRA
TORBGM
PAC103-127-010010-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
707 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
  CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 810 PM EDT

* AT 653 PM EDT ... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO IN CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WESTERN PIKE COUNTY BY 715 PM EDT
  MILFORD AND MATAMORAS BY 745 PM EDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

TOWNSEND

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 7:12 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.