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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Binghamton, NY

April 15, 2006Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2006, 1:16 AM EDT for Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 59 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 15, 2006, 1:16 AM EDT (05:16 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 2006, 2:15 AM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Onondaga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2006-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 16 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2006-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 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 Apr 14, 9:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 9:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 15, 1:01 AM EDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
101 AM EDT SAT APR 15 2006

NYZ018-150600-
ONONDAGA NY-
101 AM EDT SAT APR 15 2006

...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE AREA...

* AT 1254 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 28 MILES WEST OF LYSANDER TO 16 MILES WEST OF
  LYSANDER..AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  PLAINVILLE AT 125 AM EDT...
  WARNERS AND LYSANDER AT 130 AM EDT...
  VILLAGE GREEN AND VAN BUREN AT 135 AM EDT...
  WESTVALE AND TAUNTON AT 140 AM EDT...
  LIVERPOOL AT 145 AM EDT...
  WOODARD AND SYRACUSE AT 150 AM EDT...
  FAYETTEVILLE AND NORTH SYRACUSE AT 155 AM EDT...
  MINOA AND CICERO AT 200 AM EDT...

THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE
HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 2:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison53 min
Apr 15, 2:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMOnondaga3 hr
Apr 15, 2:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMMadison, Oneida3 hr

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.