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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 13, 2000Madison County, Oneida County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2000, 3:42 PM EDT for Madison County, Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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 13, 2000, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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, 4:25 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Vernon, 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 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

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The text

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

786 
WFUS51 KBGM 131943
TORBGM
NYC053-065-132015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
342 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ONEIDA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.
  NORTH CENTRAL MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT.

* AT 340 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER WAMPSVILLE...OR ABOUT
  OVER ONEIDA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  VERNON AROUND 350 PM EDT.
  NEW LONDON...VERONA MILLS AROUND 355 PM EDT.
  LEE AROUND 400 PM EDT.
  ROME AROUND 405 PM EDT.
  DELTA LAKE...FLOYD AROUND 410 PM EDT.
  BARNEVELD...FRENCHVILLE AROUND 415 PM EDT.

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

WALDSTREICHER

LAT...LON 4309 7585 4297 7567 4329 7516 4347 7540

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, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	73 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.