Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2001, 3:23 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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 20, 2001, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lackawanna County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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 20, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | East Benton, PA | Emergency management reported numerous trees down in Benton township. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBGM 201924 SVRBGM PAC069-202000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 323 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LACKAWANNA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 400 PM EDT. * AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...NEAR NICHOLSON...OR ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF MARSHBROOK...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TOMPKINSVILLE AROUND 330 PM EDT. RICHMONDALE AND CARBONDALE AROUND 340 PM EDT. VANDLING AND SIMPSON AROUNDy 345 PM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 78 min |
| Jun 20, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna, Wyoming | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Wayne | 36 min |
| Jun 20, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 78 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.