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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 22, 2004Seneca County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 10:05 PM EDT for Seneca County, New York. It was in force for 25 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, 10:05 PM EDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Seneca County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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 00:00Z, 2.1 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-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: 1116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 3.6

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The text

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

159 
WFUS51 KBGM 230205
TORBGM
NYC099-230230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1003 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SENECA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT.

* AT 958 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ROMULUS...
  OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF PENN YAN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * 

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HAYTS CORNERS AND SHELDRAKE SPRINGS 1010 PM

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

LAT...LON 4283 7689 4265 7688 4265 7670 4284 7674

$$

VAN AUSDALL

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, 8:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Tioga	41 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, 10:08 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.