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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Binghamton, NY

September 9, 2006Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2006, 4:01 PM EDT for Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 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: Sep 9, 2006, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Sep 9, 2006, 4:34 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pike County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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 nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 9, 4:00 PM EDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 4:00 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 4:20 AM EDT, 11 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
420 AM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-
044-047-048-072-100830-
NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN-
SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-
CHENANGO-OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-
SUSQUEHANNA-NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-
SOUTHERN WAYNE-
420 AM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NEW
YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME ALTHOUGH
THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TODAY INTO THE EVENING. AN ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORM COULD HAVE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. RAIN SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY
AMOUNTS OVER ONE INCH TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:20 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
320 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006

NYZ025-092015-
TOMPKINS NY-
320 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA...

* AT 317 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG
  GUSTY WINDS.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FREEVILLE...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DRYDEN AT 325 PM EDT...

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

MSE

Local storm report, Sep 9, 3:24 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
324 PM EDT SAT SEP 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0302 PM     HAIL             TUNKHANNOCK             41.54N 75.95W
09/09/2006  E0.75 INCH       WYOMING            PA   PUBLIC

0302 PM     HAIL             TUNKHANNOCK             41.54N 75.95W
09/09/2006  E0.88 INCH       WYOMING            PA   PUBLIC

&&

PB

Local storm report, Sep 9, 3:29 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
329 PM EDT SAT SEP 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0310 PM     HAIL             LAKE WINOLA             41.50N 75.87W
09/09/2006  E0.75 INCH       WYOMING            PA   PUBLIC

&&

PB

Local storm report, Sep 9, 3:33 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
333 PM EDT SAT SEP 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0328 PM     HAIL             SCRANTON                41.40N 75.67W
09/09/2006  E0.88 INCH       LACKAWANNA         PA   PUBLIC

&&

PB

Local storm report, Sep 9, 3:35 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
335 PM EDT SAT SEP 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0331 PM     HAIL             DUNMORE                 41.42N 75.61W
09/09/2006  E0.75 INCH       LACKAWANNA         PA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PB

Local storm report, Sep 9, 3:44 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 9, 12:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	57 min
Sep 9, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Wyoming	28 min
Sep 9, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna	67 min
Sep 9, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Wayne	40 min
Sep 9, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Wyoming	57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.