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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 15, 2004Chenango County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2004, 3:02 PM EDT for Chenango County, New York. It was in force for 13 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 2004, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2004, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
13 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chenango County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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 nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 2004-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 163 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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.

000 
WUUS51 KBGM 151902
SVRBGM
NYC017-151915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
302 PM EDT SAT MAY 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CHENANGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 257 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
  OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 75 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR MC DONOUGH...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  MARATHON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PLYMOUTH AND NORTH NORWICH AT 315 PM EDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE.

LAT...LON 4258 7593 4242 7583 4254 7540 4272 7546

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins42 min
May 15, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango, Madison46 min
May 15, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOtsego35 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.