Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 337
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2005, 2:25 PM EDT for 13 counties in New York; 11 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2005, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2005, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, Montour County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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.
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 31 min |
| May 27, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Steuben | 34 min |
| May 27, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler | 42 min |
| May 27, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Seneca, Tompkins | 44 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Broome, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Sullivan and 1 more | 115 min |
| May 27, 4:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 13 more | 84 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.