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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 11, 2003Cayuga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2003, 6:36 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 24 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: May 11, 2003, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Cayuga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 11, 1:50 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

124 
WUUS51 KBGM 112236
SVRBGM
NYC011-112300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
636 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.

* AT 632 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
  GENOA...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHEAST OF WATKINS GLEN....MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
 LOCKE AT 640 PM EDT
 MONTVILLE AND MORAVIA AT 645 PM EDT
 SEMPRONIUS AND KELLOGGSVILLE AT 655 PM EDT

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

$$

LAT...LON 4283 7633 4276 7627 4262 7645 4267 7663

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 9:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben, Yates	38 min
May 11, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cortland, Tompkins	48 min
May 11, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca	49 min
May 11, 5:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Cayuga	34 min
May 11, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	26 min
May 11, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	32 min
May 11, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Cortland, Tompkins	61 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.