Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2003, 6:30 PM EDT for Luzerne County, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 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, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Luzerne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
507 WFUS51 KBGM 112230 TORBGM PAC079-131-112315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 630 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LUZERNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA WYOMING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT. * AT 627 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH OF FAIRMOUNT SPGS...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAPORTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... KASSON BROOK AT 650 PM. NOXEN AND HARVEYS LAKE AT 655 PM. EVANS FALLS AND BEAUMONT AT 700 PM. OSTERHOUT AND TUNKHANNOCK AT 710 PM. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ LAT...LON 4142 7648 4125 7637 4141 7588 4161 7591 PADAVONA/MSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne, Wyoming | 60 min |
| May 11, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Wyoming | 45 min |
| May 11, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 58 min |
| May 11, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 40 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.