Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Jun 29, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chemung County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Newfield, NY | A storm spotter reported 1 inch diameter hail 2 miles south of Newfield. |
| Jun 29, 8:10 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Candor, NY | 1 inch diameter hail was reported by storm spotters in Candor, with some accumulation noted. Local newspaper reports also noted many trees and wires down with 100 residents left without power from Candor to Catatonk. |
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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KBGM 292316 TORBGM NYC015-097-107-109-300015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 715 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN TOMPKINS COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. SOUTHEAST SCHUYLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. TIOGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. NORTHEAST CHEMUNG COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. * UNTIL 815 PM EDT. * AT 714 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO...NEAR CATHARINE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF MONTOUR FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ELMIRA HEIGHTS AND ELMIRA AROUND 720 PM EDT. ALPINE AND SOUTHPORT AROUND 725 PM EDT. BREESPORT AND CAYUTA AROUND 730 PM EDT. ERIN AND LOWMAN AROUND 735 PM EDT. NEWFIELD HAMLET AND NEWFIELD AROUND 740 PM EDT. GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ HOLMES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Tompkins | 27 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.