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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 11, 2003Cayuga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2003, 5:56 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 34 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, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2003, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 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 21:58 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.

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, 9.9 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.

512 
WFUS51 KBGM 112156
TORBGM
NYC011-112230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
556 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

* AT 553 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR CASCADE...OR 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SENECA
  FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  KELLOGGSVILLE AND SEMPRONIUS AT 600 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.

$$

LAT...LON 4288 7645 4285 7644 4285 7635 4280 7628
          4273 7627 4262 7643 4273 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, 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, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga	24 min
May 11, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Cortland, Tompkins	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.