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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 22, 2004Tioga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 8:49 PM EDT for Tioga County, New York. It was in force for 41 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 22, 2004, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Tioga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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 22, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 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 230049
TORBGM
NYC107-230130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT.

* AT 847 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SPENCER...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF ODESSA...MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SPENCER AT 900 PM EDT
  WILLSEYVILLE AT 910 PM EDT
  CANDOR AT 915 PM EDT
  RICHFORD AT 920 PM EDT
  NEWARK VALLEY AND BERKSHIRE AT 925 PM EDT

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.

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 4233 7639 4230 7634 4230 7627 4235 7621
          4235 7612 4227 7612 4213 7615 4219 7653
          4227 7653



MORFORD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 8:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tompkins	65 min
May 22, 8:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	48 min
May 22, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Yates	60 min
May 22, 9:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Seneca	46 min
May 22, 10:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Seneca	25 min
May 22, 10:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Cayuga	67 min
May 22, 10:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Cortland	43 min
May 22, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	48 min
May 22, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga	29 min
May 23, 12:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	45 min
May 23, 12:47 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Otsego	13 min
May 23, 1:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	59 min
May 23, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	53 min
May 23, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Tioga	36 min
May 23, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	47 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.