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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 18, 2000Otsego County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 18, 2000, 3:40 PM EDT for Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2000, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Otsego County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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.

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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 260 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 181941
TORBGM
NYC077-182015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT.

* AT 334 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF   
BURLINGTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF HARTWICK...MOVING EAST AT 45   
MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OAKSVILLE AROUND 345 PM EDT.
  COOPERSTOWN...INDEX AROUND 350 PM EDT.
  BOWERSTOWN...MIDDLEFIELD AROUND 355 PM EDT.
  ELK CREEK...WESTFORD ARO0UND 400 PM EDT.
  WORCESTER AROUND 405 PM EDT.

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

RRM

LAT...LON 4275 7522 4257 7523 4252 7434 4276 7432

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, 3:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Chenango, Otsego	25 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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.