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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 11, 2000Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 7:56 PM EDT for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2000, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Luzerne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 8:20 PM EDTThunderstorm WindBerwick, PATrees down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 245 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBGM 112357
SVRBGM
PAC079-120030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
756 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LUZERNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT.

* AT 751 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...NEAR BERWICK...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  NESCOPECK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BRIGGSVILLE AND DERINGER AROUND 805 PM EDT.
  CONYNGHAM AND WESTON AROUND 810 PM EDT.
  WEST HAZLETON AROUND 815 PM EDT.
  HAZLETON AND JEANESVILLE AROUND 820 PM EDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4110 7631 4094 7643 4051 7558 4075 7540

$$

*** BRADY ***

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBradford64 min
Jun 11, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMPike29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.