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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 317, NWS Binghamton, NY

October 9, 20075 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 9, 2007, 1:50 PM EDT for 5 counties in New York. It was in force for 40 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
Oct 9, 2007, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired
Oct 9, 2007, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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 12:00Z on 2007-10-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 12:00Z on 2007-10-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 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 Oct 9, 10:07 AM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 10:07 AM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 9, 1:28 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
128 PM EDT TUE OCT 9 2007

NYZ015-016-022-023-091830-
SCHUYLER NY-SENECA NY-STEUBEN NY-YATES NY-
128 PM EDT TUE OCT 9 2007

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

* AT 124 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...
  STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM VINE VALLEY TO PRATTSBURG TO
  AVOCA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  MIDDLESEX AND WHEELER AT 135 PM EDT...
  ITALY HILL AT 140 PM EDT...
  FRIEND AND POTTER AT 145 PM EDT...
  YATESVILLE AND URBANA AT 150 PM EDT...
  WAYNE AND SONORA AT 155 PM EDT...
  PENN YAN AND MILO MILLS AT 200 PM EDT...
  MILO CENTER AND MAYS MILLS AT 205 PM EDT...
  DRESDEN AND STARKEY AT 210 PM EDT...

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

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE
INDOORS IMMEDIATELY

ARNOTT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 9, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tompkins53 min
Oct 9, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChemung, Tioga, Tompkins57 min
Oct 9, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Chenango, Tioga58 min
Oct 9, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Chenango, Delaware60 min
Oct 9, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBradford, Susquehanna57 min
Oct 9, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLackawanna, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming55 min
Oct 9, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne43 min
Oct 9, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMPike45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.