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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 18, 2000Chenango County, Otsego County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 18, 2000, 3:20 PM EDT for Chenango County, Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 25 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 18, 2000, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2000, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Chenango County, NY, Otsego County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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 18, 3:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	New Berlin, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 18, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 977 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 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.

000 
WFUS51 KBGM 181920
TORBGM
NYC017-077-181945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
320 PM EDT THU MAY 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CHENANGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.
  CENTRAL OTSEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT.

* AT 315 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER SHERBURNE...MOVING EAST
  AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PITTSFIELD AROUND 325 PM EDT.
  EDMESTON...NEW LISBON AROUND 330 PM EDT.
  BURLINGTON AROUND 335 PM EDT.
  HARTWICK...MT VISION AROUND 340 PM EDT.
  BOWERSTOWN...COOPERSTOWN AROUND 345 PM EDT.
  ELK CREEK...MARYLAND AROUND 350 PM EDT.

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

RRM

LAT...LON 4277 7550 4259 7553 4248 7476 4270 7471

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland	60 min
May 18, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	60 min
May 18, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Yates	59 min
May 18, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tompkins	59 min
May 18, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga	59 min
May 18, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Tioga	38 min
May 18, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	38 min
May 18, 3:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Otsego	35 min
May 18, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	45 min
May 18, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	50 min

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.