Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Binghamton, NY

Issued

May 10, 2000, 7:18 AM EDT (11:18 UTC)

Expired

May 10, 2000, 8:15 AM EDT

In force

57 min

Issued by

NWS Binghamton, NY

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Steuben County, NY

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WUUS51 KBGM 101119
SVRBGM
NYC101-101215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
718 AM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN STEUBEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 815 AM EDT.

* AT 711 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 6 MILES NORTH OF WELLSVILLE...
  OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF HARTSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HORNELL AROUND 730 AM EDT.
  ARKPORT...NORTH HORNELL AROUND 735 AM EDT.
  HASKINVILLE AROUND 745 AM EDT.
  COHOCTON AROUND 750 AM EDT.
  ATLANTA AROUND 755 AM EDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

SPORER

LAT...LON 4224 7805 4211 7788 4247 7730 4266 7756

NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 10, 3:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
320 AM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

CONVECTION CONTINUES EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS WRN AND CENTRAL NYS
AND NW PA AND NOT LOOKING TOO IMPRESSIVE IN OUR FA. STATIONARY
BOUNDARY ACROSS NY/PA BORDER THAT FIRED THE STORMS HAS MOVED NORTH
THRU THE AREA. SCATTERED PULSE TYPE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FA NOT
SHOWING MUCH ORGANIZATION. THUS SVR WATCH WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE
PER SPC.

SFC LOW PRESSURE TRAVELS NORTHEAST TODAY ALONG THE ST LAWRENCE
VALLEY...DRAGGING THE LONG AWAITED COLD FRONT ACROSS THE REGION
TODAY. MID/UL TROF ALSO MOVING ENEWD AND WILL REACH ERN NYS AROUND
12Z THIS MORNING. QUESTION FOR TODAY IS HOW MUCH INSTABILITY THERE
WILL BE ACROSS THE FA GIVEN EARLIER CONVECTION AND AMT OF CLD COVER.
NGM MUCH MORE UNSTABLE TODAY VS ETA. ATMOS HAS BEEN WORKED OVER WITH
TODAYS CONVECTION EXCPT FOR AREAS ACROSS NE PA THAT DID NOT SEE AS
MUCH. ALSO MORE SUN ACROSS ERN SECTIONS AND LATER ARRIVAL OF FROPA.
GOOD LOW LEVEL FLOW SWLY OF 35-40KTS AT 12Z IS PROGGED TO WEAKEN
DURING THE MORNING. GENERALLY EXPECT A COMPROMISE IN MARGINALLY
UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH ISOLATED SVR POSSIBLE WITH LEADING EDGE OF
TSRA AHEAD OF SHRA AND FROPA. ETA AND NGM KEEP PRECIP IN AREA THRU
ABOUT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT SO WILL CONTINUE WITH EVENING CHC THEN
CLEARING FOR MOST ZONES.

QUIET WEATHER IN STORE FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE
BUILDS INTO THE REGION.

.BGM...NONE.

JML

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.