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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 21, 2000Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2000, 5:42 PM EDT for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 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, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 63 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), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 1735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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.

962 
WUUS51 KBGM 212144
SVRBGM
PAC079-212245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LUZERNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT.

* AT 537 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...NEAR
  BERWICK...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF CAMBRA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HUNTINGTON MILLS AROUND 550 PM EDT.
  KOONSVILLE AROUND 555 PM EDT.
  MUHLENBERG AND POND HILL AROUND 600 PM EDT.
  GLEN LYON AROUND 605 PM EDT.
  SLOCUM AROUND 610 PM EDT.
  LEHMAN AND NANTICOKE AROUND 615 PM EDT.
  DALLAS AND FERN BROOK AROUND 620 PM EDT.
  WILKES-BARRE AROUND 625 PM EDT.
  CARVERTON AND FORTY FORT AROUND 630 PM EDT.

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

LAT...LON 4128 7647 4110 7644 4113 7556 4140 7572

$$

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, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 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, 3 hours 39 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, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna, Wayne	52 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.