Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2001, 6:39 PM EDT for Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 13, 2001, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 13, 1:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 1:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 130 PM EDT THU SEP 13 2001 SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH PASSING COLD FRONT NOW MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE BGM SERVICE AREA. MODELS AGREE ON SHARPENING 500MB TROF OVER THE AREA. THAT RESULTS IN AN INCREASE IN PRECIPITATION THREAT TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHERN TIER. ETA IS A LITTLE WETTER THAN THE NGM. AFTER COORD WITH BUF...PLAN TO GO LIKELY POPS TONIGHT WITH A CHANCE ON FRIDAY MORNING FOR THE SOUTHERN TIER. WITH THE SURFACE FRONT CLEARING THE NORTHERN COUNTIES TODAY...WILL ONLY MENTION A CHANCE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING THERE. VORT MAX CROSSES THE AREA FRIDAY MORNING AND MOVES EAST OF THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON. STRONG UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION PULLS EAST OF THE AREA FRIDAY MORNING WITH GOOD SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THE DEPARTING VORT MAX. WILL INDICATE SOME CLEARING FRIDAY AFTN. THE UPPER LEVEL TROF AXIS IS OVER THE AREA FRIDAY WITH THE COOLEST HIGH TEMPS SO FAR THIS SEASON. .BGM...NONE. RJW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Wayne | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.