Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2003, 7:48 PM EDT for Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 42 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 4, 2003, 7:48 PM EDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Susquehanna County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBGM 042348 SVRBGM PAC115-050030- BULLETIN EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 745 PM EDT THU SEP 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 739 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WEST AUBURN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF WYALUSING...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AUBURN CENTER AT 750 PM EDT ELK LAKE AT 755 PM EDT SPRINGVILLE AND DIMOCK AT 800 PM EDT HOP BOTTOM AT 815 PM EDT WEST LENOX AND HARFORD AT 820 PM EDT LENOXVILLE AND ROYAL AT 825 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER NOW. $$ LAT...LON 4179 7619 4164 7626 4166 7558 4179 7555 PADAVONA
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 4, 1:55 PM EDT, 5 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 1:55 PM EDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 155 PM EDT THU SEP 4 2003 OVERVIEW...GNRLY DRIER PTRN IN STORE FOR THE FCST AREA. SOME DIFFS IN THE MDLS WITH RESPECT TO THE TIMING AND PCPN POTNL ASSCD WITH A BACK-DOOR TYPE CDFNT SUNDAY NGT INTO MONDAY. CDFNT CRNTLY NEAR A UCA-ELM LINE AND CONTINUES TO HEAD SEWD. WILL KEEP CHC POPS FOR THE SRN CATSKILLS AND MOST OF NE PA FOR SCT EVNG ACTIVITY. THUS FAR ACTIVITY HAS BEEN VERY WEAK, BUT SOME LIMITED POTNL FOR DVLPMNT AHEAD OF FNT INTO THE EARLY EVNG HRS. ANY CONVECTION WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED CLOSELY DUE TO VERY LOW FFG VALUES IN THIS AREA. OTRW XPCT SKIES TO BE PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY. SCT-BKN CLDS AND LGT NW WINDS, ALONG WITH LOWERING TDS SHUD MINIMIZE THREAT FOR AREAS OF FOG, ALTHO SOME VLYS MAY SEE PATCHY FOG TWDS DAYBREAK. SFC HIGH PRES WILL GRADUALLY BUILD INTO THE RGN, BUT THERE ARE STILL RIPPLES IN THE NW FLOW ALOFT, WITH LOW LVL MSTR TO WORK ON. TDAS SAT PIX SHOW AN XTNSV AREA OF STRATO-CU OVER THE CNTRL GTLAKES, AND IT APPEARS THIS WILL ROTATE INTO THE RGN TMRW. I DONT THINK IT WILL BE ENTIRELY OVC ACRS UPSTATE NY AS PER ETA MOS GUIDANCE, BUT DO XPCT PLENTY OF BKN CLDS WITH OCNL BREAKS OF SUNSHINE HERE MORE SUNSHINE LIKELY LATE IN THE DAY ACRS THE CNTRL SRN TIER/FINGER LAKES AND WRN MOHAWK VLY AS AXIS OF MSTR BEGINS TO PULL OUT. A PARTLY SUNNY FCST MAY SUFFICE FOR NE PA AND FAR SRN CATSKILLS WHICH WILL BE FURTHEST REMOVED FROM THE LOW LVL MSTR. RIDGING ALOFT AND DRIER AIR FOR FRI NGT AND SATURDAY WITH MAINLY CLEAR SKIES. NO REAL PRBLMS WITH MOS TEMPS. EXTENDED FORECAST (SAT NIGHT - THU) MODELS INDICATING PASSAGE OF BACK DOOR COLD FRONT LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. ETA IS FASTER...AND SLIGHTLY STRONGER WITH SUPPORTING 500 MB WAVE...WHILE GFS SLOWER/WEAKER. VERY DRY LOWER ATMOSPHERE WILL TEND TO KEEP THINGS DRY...SO WILL ONLY INCREASE CLOUD COVER ATTM. CWA WILL GENERALLY BE UNDERNEATH 500 MB RIDGE...THUS WILL KEEP REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD DRY. GENERALLY FOLLOWED MEX TEMPS...ALTHOUGH WENT SLIGHTLY WARMER LATE IN THE PERIOD. AVIATION VFR CONDS SHOULD CONTINUR THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...WITH A FEW SHRA/TSRA CAUSING MVFR...PATICULARLY AT KBGM/KAVP. VFR WILL RETURN FOR A PERIOD THIS EVE...THEN CIGS WILL BECOME BKN AGAIN AS TROUGH AXIS SWINGS THROUGH...LOWERING TO MVFR LEVELS. .BGM...NONE. DAYS 1-2: BRADY DAYS 3-7/AVIATION: CEMPA
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 4, 4:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043- 044-047-048-072-042230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 435 PM EDT THU SEP 4 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. LOCALIZED DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. ESPECIALLY ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA AND THE WESTERN CATSKILLS IN NEW YORK WHERE HEAVY RAIN FELL LAST NIGHT, LOCALIZED RUNOFF PROBLEMS ARE POSSIBLE. PLEASE REFER TO PRODUCT ALBSPSBGM FOR MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 4:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
NYZ057-062-PAZ038>040-043-044-047-072-050400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 425 PM EDT THU SEP 4 2003 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE LATE TODAY INTO THIS EVENING... A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT OVER CENTRAL NEW YORK AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND PASS THROUGH THE REGION THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK AS THIS FRONT APPROACHES. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES OF AN INCH PER HOUR, WHICH WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. AREAS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL LAST NIGHT, INCLUDING LACKAWANNA COUNTY AND THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY, WILL BE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE TO LOCALIZED FLOODING IF RAINFALL RATES APPROACH AN INCH PER HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...OR VISIT OUR INTERNET WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Bradford | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 15 min |
| Sep 4, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 45 min |
| Sep 4, 7:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.