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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Binghamton, NY

September 12, 2000Madison County, Oneida County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2000, 4:42 PM EDT for Madison County, Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 63 min. 3 reports 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: Sep 12, 2000, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Sep 12, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 12, 4:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Verona, NY	Trees down
Sep 12, 5:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Lee, NY	Downed wires. Wires started small brush fires.
Sep 12, 5:02 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Chittenango, NY	Numerous trees and wires down. Also reported in Cazenovia.

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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 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.

410 
WUUS51 KBGM 122045
SVRBGM
NYC053-065-122145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
442 PM EDT TUE SEP 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ONEIDA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.
  MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT.

* AT 440 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM CAMDEN TO TULLY...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BOONVILLE AND DE RUYTER AROUND 450 PM EDT.
  ERIEVILLE AND FORESTPORT AROUND 455 PM EDT.
  ALDER CREEK...ROME AND FLOYD AROUND 500 PM EDT.
  AUGUSTA AND BARNEVELD AROUND 505 PM EDT.
  HUBBARDSVILLE...UTICA AND MAYNARD AROUND 510 PM EDT.
  CHADWICKS AND CLAYVILLE AROUND 515 PM EDT.
  BRIDGEWATER AND BROOKFIELD AROUND 520 PM EDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY 
INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4322 7592 4304 7591 4273 7588 4275 7525
          4360 7513

$$

JAB

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 Sep 12, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
230 PM EDT TUE SEP 12 2000

APPROACHING COLD FRONT CROSSES THE FA MAINLY BETWEEN 00Z AND 06Z
THIS EVENING. NOT ALOT GOING ON WITH THE FRONT PRECIP-WISE. SOME
PRECIP FIRING UP IN LAKE CONVERGENCE NEAR BUF...BUT EXPECT SOME MORE
DEVELOPMENT AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON. SHRA/TSRA SHOULD BE CONFINED
MAINLY TO THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS THE WESTERN ZONES AND TAPER OFF
AFTER MID ACROSS THE EAST.

HIGH PRESSURE AND DRIER AIR TAKE OVER FOR WED. PLENTY OF CU FORMED
ACROSS MI BY MID MORNING TODAY BEHIND THE FRONT...BUT HAD THINNED
CONSIDERABLY BY EARLY AFTN. WILL PROBABLY BE THE SAME AROUND HERE SO
DO NOT THINK THE CU WILL BE AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO CHANGE CURRENT
MOSTLY SUNNY FORECAST. ANY DIURNAL CU WILL DISSIPATE LEAVING MOSTLY
CLEAR SKIES FOR WED NIGHT.

THURSDAY...A BIT OF MODEL DIFFERENCE BRINGING THE NEXT SYSTEM EWD
WITH THE ETA A BIT FASTER THAN THE AVN. ETA BRINGS SOME PRECIP INTO
WRN ZONES LATER IN THE AFTN WHILE THE AVN BRINGS NO PRECIP UNTIL
THURSDAY NIGHT. WILL TREND TWD THE SLOWER SOLUTION AND KEEP POPS OUT
DURING THE DAY THURSDAY FOR NOW.

.BGM...NONE.

JL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 12, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	57 min
Sep 12, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	60 min
Sep 12, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Tioga	61 min
Sep 12, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland	57 min
Sep 12, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	57 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.