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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 10, 2000Tompkins County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2000, 1:00 PM EDT for Tompkins County, New York. It was in force for 45 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
May 10, 2000, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2000, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tompkins County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 10, 1:05 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ESouth Lansing, NYThunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
May 10, 1:15 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EGroton, NYThunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires. Also, wires were reported down on Elm Street due to a tree split by lightning.
May 10, 1:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EEtna, NYA tree blown down by thunderstorm winds blocked Lower Creek Road.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 10, 10:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -97 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
-156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS51 KBGM 101701
TORBGM
NYC109-101745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
100 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TOMPKINS COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT.

* AT 100 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NORTHWEST ITHACA...OR
  ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF ITHACA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CAYUGA HEIGHTS...FOREST HOME AROUND 105 PM EDT.
  ITHACA TOMPKINS ARPT...LANSING AROUND 110 PM EDT.
  ETNA...WEST DRYDEN AROUND 115 PM EDT.
  WEST GROTON AROUND 120 PM EDT.
  FREEVILLE...PERUVILLE AROUND 125 PM EDT.
  GROTON AROUND 130 PM EDT.

GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

JAB

LAT...LON 4249 7673 4235 7659 4251 7626 4264 7643

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan61 min
May 9, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware60 min
May 10, 7:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSteuben57 min
May 10, 7:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan36 min
May 10, 8:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSeneca27 min
May 10, 8:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan34 min
May 10, 9:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan55 min
May 10, 10:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChemung, Tompkins48 min
May 10, 11:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome38 min
May 10, 11:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSteuben63 min
May 10, 11:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTioga47 min
May 10, 11:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango61 min
May 10, 11:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison, Oneida60 min
May 10, 11:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOnondaga60 min
May 10, 11:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCortland42 min
May 10, 11:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware, Otsego66 min
May 10, 11:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMYates59 min
May 10, 11:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware, Sullivan68 min
May 10, 11:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome50 min
May 10, 12:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCayuga, Onondaga57 min
May 10, 12:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSchuyler66 min
May 10, 12:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSeneca37 min
May 10, 12:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida60 min
May 10, 12:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOnondaga43 min
May 10, 12:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCayuga67 min
May 10, 12:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison67 min
May 10, 12:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTompkins37 min
May 10, 12:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango66 min
May 10, 1:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSteuben54 min
May 10, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCortland, Onondaga51 min
May 10, 1:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTioga52 min
May 10, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison, Oneida51 min
May 10, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Cortland, Tioga46 min
May 10, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTioga41 min
May 10, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome41 min
May 10, 3:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMBroome, Chenango3 hr
May 10, 5:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMTioga3 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.