Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Binghamton, NY

April 13, 2006Steuben County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2006, 2:17 PM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 28 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
Apr 13, 2006, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 2006, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Steuben County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-04-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 13, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChemung, Schuyler51 min
Apr 13, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOnondaga56 min
Apr 13, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCayuga, Cortland53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2006Every 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.