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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 6, 2005Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2005, 1:20 PM EDT for Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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: Jun 6, 2005, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 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
Jun 6, 9:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr
Jun 6, 12:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBGM 061721
SVRBGM
PAC127-061815-
/O.NEW.KBGM.SV.W.0021.050606T1720Z-050606T1815Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
120 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 215 PM EDT

* AT 118 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF STARRUCA TO PLEASANT MOUNT. 

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  STARLIGHT AND SHEHAWKEN AT 125 PM EDT
  RUTLEDGEDALE AT 140 PM EDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE ACROSS 
NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTHERN NEW YORK. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY 
DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND 
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.

LAT...LON 4197 7547 4166 7544 4166 7511 4194 7530

$$

MSE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBGM 061753
SVSBGM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
152 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005

PAC127-061815-
/O.CON.KBGM.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050606T1815Z/
WAYNE PA-
152 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR 
WAYNE COUNTY...

AT 146 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE 
EXTENDING FROM NEAR WINTERDALE TO PLEASANT MOUNT TO 14 MILES SOUTH 
OF PLEASANT MOUNT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  STARRUCA AT 135 PM EDT
  SHEHAWKEN AND SCOTT CENTER AT 140 PM EDT
  WINTERDALE AND STARLIGHT AT 145 PM EDT
  RUTLEDGEDALE AND RILEYVILLE AT 200 PM EDT

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HIAWATHA...PRESTON PARK...LAKEWOOD AND LAKE COMO.

LAT...LON 4197 7547 4166 7544 4166 7511 4194 7530

$$

MSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 11:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	79 min
Jun 6, 12:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	61 min
Jun 6, 1:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Wyoming	53 min
Jun 6, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne	60 min
Jun 6, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna	55 min
Jun 6, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Pike	63 min
Jun 6, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Wayne	30 min
Jun 6, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Bradford	58 min
Jun 6, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	33 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.