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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 21, 2000Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2000, 4:23 PM EDT for Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jul 21, 2000, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 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.

122 
WUUS51 KBGM 212024
SVRBGM
PAC115-127-212115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
423 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
  NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT.

* AT 419 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM SUSQUEHANNA TO NEW MILFORD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  JACKSON AROUND 430 PM EDT.
  ARARAT AND BURNWOOD AROUND 435 PM EDT.
  ORSON AND SCOTT CENTER AROUND 440 PM EDT.
  HIAWATHA AND SHEHAWKEN AROUND 445 PM EDT.
  LAKE COMO AND LAKEWOOD AROUND 450 PM EDT.
  EQUINUNK AND LOOKOUT AROUND 505 PM EDT.
  ABRAHAMSVILLE AROUND 510 PM EDT.

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

LAT...LON 4204 7568 4177 7584 4177 7511 4198 7530

$$

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 Jul 21, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
215 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 2000

SHRT WV ROTATES RAPIDLY THRU AND IS WELL NORTH AND EAST OF THE FCST
AREA THIS EVE. SCT SHWRS AND TRWS TRIGGERED THIS AFTN MAY LINGER
INTO THE EVE...ESP AS THE SFC TROF SEEMS TO BE SLOER TO MVE THRU.
WILL KEEP A MENTION OF SHWRS IN THE FCST FOR THE 1ST PD.

MODELS ARE PROGRESSIVE WITH THE STACKED LOW...FILLING THE SFC LOW
AND MVG IT WELL INTO CANADA...AND BRINGING THE H5 HGTS UP MARKEDLY
DURING SAT. STILL...WITH THE UPPER TROF AND THE TAIL END OF A SHRT
WV ROTATING THRU...BELIEVE THE WISE MVE WILL BE TO KEEP LOW CHANCE
POPS...ALONG WITH A TRW IN THE NRN ZONES...FOR SAT. MDL CAPES ARE
MUCH LWR...SO ACTIVITY IS LIKELY TO BE MORE ISLTD THAN THIS AFTN.

SUNDAY LOOKS LIKE A GREAT DAY AS THE SFC HI BUILDS WITH LGT WINDS AND
THE H5 HGTS CONTINUE TO RISE. TEMPS WILL REMAIN BLO NRML...SO SHD
FEEL QUITE COMFORTABLE DESPITE THE SUN. COOL ENUF ALOFT FOR CU
DVLPMT BUT LWRG INV SHD INHIBIT MOST/ALL SHWRS.

WRK ZONES SOON. FINALS BEFORE 3 PM.

.BGM...NONE.

MORFORD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 21, 2:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

ZCZC ALBLSRBGM ALL
TTAA00 KBGM DDHHMM

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
203 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1255 PM    AUBURN                    NY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/21/00   CAYUGA                         REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0105 PM    4 W SKANEATELES           NY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/21/00   CAYUGA                         REPORTED BY MEDIA.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.