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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Binghamton, NY

September 12, 2000Broome County, Chenango County, Cortland County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2000, 6:03 PM EDT for Broome County, Chenango County, Cortland County, New York. It was in force for 57 min. 2 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, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Sep 12, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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
Sep 12, 6:51 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	North Norwich, NY	Tree down on Route 12.
Sep 12, 7:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Greene, NY	Tree down on Route 9.

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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.

669 
WUUS51 KBGM 122206
SVRBGM
NYC007-017-023-122300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CORTLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.
  NORTHERN AND WESTERN CHENANGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.
  NORTHERN AND WESTERN BROOME COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.

* AT 602 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM SHERBURNE TO NEWARK VALLEY TO WAVERLY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  LISLE AND NANTICOKE AROUND 610 PM EDT.
  MC DONOUGH AND PLYMOUTH AROUND 615 PM EDT.
  NORTH NORWICH AROUND 620 PM EDT.
  PRESTON AND SMITHVILLE FLATS AROUND 625 PM EDT.
  COLUMBUS AROUND 630 PM EDT.
  NORWICH AND SMITHVILLE CENTER AROUND 635 PM EDT.
  BRISBEN AND CASTLE CREEK AROUND 640 PM EDT.
  CHENANGO FORKS AND NEW BERLIN AROUND 645 PM EDT.
  HOLMESVILLE AROUND 650 PM EDT.

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

WATCH OUT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND FLOODING OF POOR
DRAINAGE AREAS.

LAT...LON 4275 7529 4274 7572 4249 7613 4241 7624
          4241 7613 4221 7607 4208 7609 4234 7540
          4239 7541 4242 7537 4246 7539 4251 7539
          4258 7533

$$

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, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 2:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 12, 5:45 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
545 PM EDT TUE SEP 12 2000

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

0420 PM    COUNTYWIDE                NY   WIND DAMAGE
09/12/00   ONONDAGA                       TREES AND WIRES DOWN
                                          COUNTY WIDE 420 TO 500
                                          PM. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

0423 PM    (SYR)HANCOCK APT SYRACUSE NY   52 MPH TSTM GUST
09/12/00   ONONDAGA

0455 PM    TRUMANSBURG               NY   WIND DAMAGE
09/12/00   TOMPKINS                       TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

0510 PM    ITHACA                    NY   WIND DAMAGE
09/12/00   TOMPKINS                       TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

0510 PM    GROTON                    NY   WIND DAMAGE
09/12/00   TOMPKINS                       SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

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, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	63 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, 6:48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.