Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Binghamton, NY
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwick, PA | Trees 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 29 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.