Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT for Schuyler County, Tompkins County, New York. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Schuyler County, NY, Tompkins County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jun 29, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 240 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2000 SHRT WV ENHANCING THIS AFTN/S TRWS IS FLWD CLOSELY BY ANOTHER SHRT WV...WHICH IS CRNTLY HELPING A FLARE UP OF TRWS OVER NRN MI. NGM KEEPS ALL ZONES DRY...WHILE THE ETA DROPS RAIN ACROSS THE CNTRL AND NRN ZONES. THIS FINAL SHRT WV ACCOMPANIES THE BASE OF THE H5 HGTS...WITH THE LOEST HGTS OCCURRING OVERNGT. SO...CNSDRG WHAT/S HAPPENING OVER MI ATTM...AND WITH THE TROF LINE MVG THRU...MORE INCLINED TO FOLLOW THE ETA AND KEEP SHWRS IN THE ZONES IN THE 1ST PD. SHARP TROF PULLS OUT AND HGTS RISE DRAMATICALLY ON FRI. THIS WILL ALLOW MSTLY SUNNY SKIES IN MOST ZONES AFTER SOME MRNG CLDS. WILL NOT BOTHER WITH THE STANDARD VLY FOG WRDG TNGT AS ENUF CLDS SHD BE AROUND TO INHIBIT WIDESPREAD LOW VSBLTYS. OTRW...REMAINDER OF THE FCST PD LOOKS GOOD AS SFC HI PRESSURE BUILDS IN AND HGTS ALOFT RISE. WHILE WE REMAIN IN A NWLY FLOW...TROF IS MORE FLAT AND SHRT WVS ZIP ALONG MUCH FURTHER NORTH. WRK ZONES 245...FINALS AROUND 3 PM. .BGM...NONE. MORFORD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 13 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.