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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 11, 2003Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2003, 7:35 PM EDT for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 40 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, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2003, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Luzerne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 245 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

803 
WFUS51 KBGM 112335
TORBGM
PAC079-120015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LUZERNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT.

* AT 732 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR FREELAND...OR 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  HAZLETON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WHITE HAVEN AT 750 PM
  STODDARTSVILLE AT 805 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 4109 7606 4092 7599 4105 7514 4121 7524

PADAVONA/MSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLuzerne, Wyoming60 min
May 11, 6:30 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMLuzerne, Wyoming45 min
May 11, 7:15 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMLackawanna, Wyoming45 min
May 11, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLuzerne58 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.