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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 12, 2005Sullivan County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2005, 5:47 PM EDT for Sullivan County, New York. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 12, 2005, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2005, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sullivan County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 12, 6:00 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Callicoon, NY	WIDESPREAD DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES IN CALLICOON AND JEFFERSONVILLE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 12, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 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 122147
TORBGM
NYC105-122215-
/O.NEW.KBGM.TO.W.0002.050812T2147Z-050812T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
547 PM EDT FRI AUG 12 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  JEFFERSONVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF LIBERTY...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS AND BETHEL AT 555 PM EDT
  SWAN LAKE AND LIBERTY AT 600 PM EDT
  HARRIS AND MAPLEWOOD AT 605 PM EDT
  FALLSBURG AND HURLEYVILLE AT 610 PM EDT
  WOODBOURNE AND WOODRIDGE AT 615 PM EDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE 
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4190 7503 4172 7509 4159 7449 4181 7441

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBGM 122204
SVSBGM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
604 PM EDT FRI AUG 12 2005

NYC105-122215-
/O.CON.KBGM.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050812T2215Z/
SULLIVAN NY-
604 PM EDT FRI AUG 12 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL SULLIVAN
COUNTY...

AT 601 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SWAN LAKE...OR
ABOUT NEAR LIBERTY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HURLEYVILLE AND LOCH SHELDRAKE AT 610 PM EDT
  SOUTH FALLSBURG AND FALLSBURG AT 615 PM EDT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4190 7503 4172 7509 4159 7449 4181 7441

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	56 min
Aug 12, 2:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Steuben	31 min
Aug 12, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	72 min
Aug 12, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Tioga	31 min
Aug 12, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	65 min
Aug 12, 6:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Sullivan	33 min
Aug 12, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	30 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.