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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 28, 2002Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 2002, 6:33 PM EDT for Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 27 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: Jul 28, 2002, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Onondaga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 28, 6:40 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Mottville, NY	The tornado touched down briefly in the hamlet of Mottville which is in the town of Skaneateles. The tornado's path length was approximately 100 yards and its width was approximately 50 yards. A trailer home was destroyed in the center of Mottville. The 67
Jul 28, 6:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Skaneateles, NY	Thunderstorms winds downed numerous trees and wires from Skaneateles through Marcellus, Marietta, and Amber to Otisco. The worst damage was in the village of Skaneateles. In the village an antique boat show was wrapping up. The wind overturned many sailboat

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
Jul 28, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 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.

687 
WFUS51 KBGM 282233
TORBGM
NYC067-282300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
633 PM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.

* AT 631 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SKANEATELES...OR 15 MILES WEST OF
  SYRACUSE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SKANEATELES AND MARCELLUS AT 635 PM.
  OTISCO AT 655 PM.
  LA FAYETTE AT 700 PM.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION FROM THE DAMAGING WINDS OF A TORNADO...GO TO A
BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR
BUSINESS.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR 
ONONDAGA COUNTY THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

$$

LAT...LON 4310 7647 4293 7647 4277 7623 4288 7594

JAB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga	43 min
Jul 28, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.