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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 9, 2000Steuben County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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 9, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Steuben County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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
May 9, 5:50 PM EDT	Hail 1	Addison, NY	Also, 800 people were left without power across the county due to lightning strikes.

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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 751 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 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 092131
SVRBGM
NYC101-092215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
530 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN STEUBEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 524 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF ADDISON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF WOODHULL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ADDISON AROUND 535 PM EDT.
  COOPERS PLAINS...ERWINS AROUND 545 PM EDT.
  CORNING...PAINTED POST AROUND 550 PM EDT.
  GIBSON AROUND 555 PM EDT.
  EAST CORNING AROUND 600 PM EDT.

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

WALDSTREICHER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung	48 min
May 9, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	63 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.