Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Binghamton, NY

Issued

Oct 4, 2000, 9:30 AM EDT (13:30 UTC)

Expired

Oct 4, 2000, 10:15 AM EDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Binghamton, NY

Area

Whole counties

County Bradford County, PA

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WUUS51 KBGM 041332
SVRBGM
NYC015-097-PAC015-041415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
930 AM EDT WED OCT 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SCHUYLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.
  NORTHWESTERN BRADFORD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
  CHEMUNG COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 1015 AM EDT.

* AT 928 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM DUNDEE TO WELLSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BURDETT AND EAST STEAMBURG AROUND 935 AM EDT.
  BENNETTSBURG AND CHAMBERS AROUND 940 AM EDT.
  ALPINE AND BIG FLATS AROUND 945 AM EDT.
  CAYUTA AND ELMIRA HEIGHTS AROUND 950 AM EDT.
  BREESPORT AND ERIN AROUND 955 AM EDT.
  LOWMAN AND VAN ETTEN AROUND 1000 AM EDT.
  CHEMUNnG AND OWENS MILL AROUND 1005 AM EDT.

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

$$

JAB

NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 4, 3:15 AM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
315 AM EDT WED OCT 4 2000

LEADING EDGE OF PCPN MAKING QUICK EWD PROGRESS ACRS LK ERIE ATTM.
THE ETA INITIALIZED BEST WITH THIS BATCH OF RAIN/ELEVATED CONVECTION
AND SUPPORTING S/WV.  HOWEVER...EVEN ITS SCENARIO LOOKED A BIT SLOW
TO DEVELOP PCPN IN OUR CWA TDY.  WUD XPCT RAIN TO OVERSPREAD OUR
NRN/WRN ZNS BY ARND 12Z...WITH PCPN REACHING THE REST OF THE TWIN
TIERS MID-LATE AM...THEN ON TO AVP/CATSK/POCONO ZNS BY ARND MIDDAY.
INCLUDED MENTION OF THUNDER FOR NY/S SRN TIER AND NE PA BASED ON
HISTORY OF THIS SYS SO FAR AND ALSO HINTS OF ELEVATED INSTAB/SLOPED
ASCENT ON THE HRLY SNDG PROFILES THIS AFTN.

FIRST BATCH OF RAIN PULLS OUT FROM W TO E THIS EVE.  WK SUBSIDENCE
IN BETWEEN WVS MAY PROMOTE P/CLRG FOR A WHILE OVRNT.  HOWEVER...WET
GRND AND GENERALLY SATURATED LL ENVIR SHUD LEAD TO RAPID FOG DVLPMT
SHUD SUCH CLRG TAKE PLACE.  WILL WORD SKY COVER AS VRBL CLDS ONCE
PCPN CUTS OFF ERLY TNT.

THU...NEXT IMPULSE MAKES A RUN AT NY/PA.  A LOOK AT MODEL SNDG
OVERVIEWS SHOWS A HEALTHY LL JET OF ABT 50 KT ACCOMPANYING THIS
FEATURE...LEADING TO PRONOUNCED THETA/MOIST CONV AND LIFT...SPCLY
TWIN TIER ZNS.  RAIN WILL SET IN AGN.  EMPLOYED CAT POPS ALL AREAS
EXCEPT SERN ZNS...WHERE LKLY VALUES WERE RETAINED.  INCLUDED PSBLTY
OF TSRA FOR MOST OF THE TWIN TIERS...NE PA...AND THE CATSK.  THESE
AREAS ARE CLOSE TO AND SE OF PROGGED TRACK OF SFC LO AND IT/S HERE
WHERE THE MODELS AGN SHOW SOME INSTAB ALOFT.

OTHER THAN ADDING A THU NGT PD FOR PSBL LINGERING PCPN...LEFT
EXTENDED FCST ALONE.

WENT GENERALLY UNDER MOS TEMP GUIDANCE BOTH TDY AND TMRW...COMING
CLOSEST TO MAV VALUES.

WRK ZNS OUT.  FINALS WIBIS BETWEEN 330 AND 345.

.BGM...NONE.

JUREWICZ

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