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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 16, 2000Chemung County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 6:58 PM EDT for Chemung County, New York. It was in force for 47 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 16, 2000, 6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Chemung County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 7:18 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Big Flats, NY	Storm spotters reported that trees were blown down along Routes 352 and 64. A lightning strike also casued a power interuption at a local store.

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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 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.

826 
WUUS51 KBGM 162259
SVRBGM
NYC015-162345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
658 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEMUNG COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT.

* AT 654 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...NEAR BIG FLATS...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF
  SAGETOWN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ELMIRA HEIGHTS AND ELMIRA AROUND 705 PM EDT.
  BREESPORT AND LOWMAN AROUND 710 PM EDT.
  ERIN AROUND 715 PM EDT.
  CHEMUNG AND OWENS MILL AROUND 720 PM EDT.
  VAN ETTEN AROUND 725 PM EDT.

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

LAT...LON 4216 7708 4198 7706 4200 7656 4221 7654

$$

WALDSTREICHER

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 Jun 16, 5:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 5:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
555 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

SHOWERS...MAYBE A RUMBLE OF THUNDER...GETTING INTO THE FINGER LAKES
AND WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY (SYR/UCA) ZONE GROUP WHERE NO MENTION OF
EVENING RAIN WAS IN FORECAST...SO HAVE SENT OUT A QUICK UPDATE FOR
THIS. ONLY BLYR FORCING AND THE HOT SOUPY AMS GENERATING THESE
STORMS OFF LEFTOVER BNDRYS AND TERRAIN...SO THIS ROUND WL PROBABLY
DSPT WITH THE SETTING SUN. I ANTICIPATE UPSTREAM CONVECTION MOVG ERN
OH/WRN PA WL RMN SOUTH FOR THE MOMENT...WITH RMNDR FCST LOOKING GOOD
FOR A LATE EVENING BREAK...THEN ADDL SHRA/TSRA WITH THE APCH FRONT
AND S/WV TROF TWD MORNING.

.BGM...NONE.

BREWSTER

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 4:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	2 hr
Jun 16, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Tioga	45 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.