Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 3:32 PM EDT for Madison County, Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 73 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2000, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 73 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, NY | Trees and wires blown down across much of the county from thunderstorm winds. |
| May 13, 4:08 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Whitesboro, NY | Thunderstorm winds brought down trees on houses. |
| May 13, 4:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Vernon, NY | |
| May 13, 4:27 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Westmoreland, NY | Thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires. Hail 1.25 inches in diameter damaged a garage. A steel reenforced garage door was damaged by strong winds. |
| May 13, 4:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Utica, NY |
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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 May 13, 2:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 215 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 DEW PTS ARE STARTING TO DROP IN BFD AND ROC SO IT WLD APPEAR THAT THE FNT IS NEAR THOSE LOCATIONS. WATCHING THE CONVECTION CAREFULLY NOW AS SKIES HAVE CLRD AND LOW LVL MOISTURE IS TRYING TO POOL AHD OF THE FNT. TRWS STILL SEEM RATHER WEAK. TIMING THE FNT WITH CRNTS AND MODELS WLD HAVE IT PRETTY MUCH CLR OF THE FCST AREA BY 00Z. PSBLTY OF SOME LINGERING SHWRS OVER THE ERN ZONES SO WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS IN THERE. VERY DRY AIR BHD THE FNT EVIDENCED BY THE SHARP CLRG ON THE SAT LOOP OVER OH AND SW ONTARIO. BELIEVE THE WINDS OVRNGT WILL BE LGT ENUF TO ALLOW THE VLYS TO DCPL. WITH ALL THE WET GROUND AND GREENERY WILL PUT SOME VLY FOG IN THE CNTRL ZONES. REMAINDER OF THE FCST DOMINATED BY A NWLY FLOW AS DECENT H5 TROF CARVES INTO THE GRT LAKES. CHILLY AIR FOR THE SEASON WILL BRING TEMPS BACK BLO NRML. WEAK SHRT WV ROTATING THRU THE TROF MAY TRIGGER A SHWR SUN NGT BUT WILL HOLD OFF FOR NOW AND AWAIT DVLPMTS. WRK ZONES GONE...FINALS SHRTLY. .BGM...NONE. MORFORD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca | 52 min |
| May 13, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 33 min |
| May 13, 4:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 3 hr |
| May 13, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cortland | 36 min |
| May 13, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Cortland | 3 hr |
| May 13, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 63 min |
| May 13, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 48 min |
| May 13, 5:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chenango | 3 hr |
| May 13, 5:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Tioga | 3 hr |
| May 13, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 64 min |
| May 13, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Broome | 3 hr |
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.