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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 22, 2004Steuben County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 7:31 PM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 29 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 22, 2004, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Steuben County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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 22, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 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 
WFUS51 KBGM 222331
TORBGM
NYC101-230000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
731 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN STEUBEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 728 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR AVOCA...OR
  ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF HORNELL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS
  KANONA AT 735 PM EDT
  BATH AND PRATTSBURG AT 740 PM EDT
  RHEIMS AND HAMMONDSPORT AT 745 PM EDT
  URBANA AND SONORA AT 750 PM EDT

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4253 7749 4253 7715 4249 7711 4232 7710
          4234 7742 4245 7756

$$

MORFORD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	61 min
May 22, 7:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Steuben	24 min
May 22, 7:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Schuyler	53 min
May 22, 7:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Schuyler	49 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.