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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 16, 2008Chenango County, Cortland County, Madison County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2008, 4:47 PM EDT for Chenango County, Cortland County, Madison County, New York. It was in force for 58 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: Jul 16, 2008, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2008, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Madison County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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-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: 168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 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 Jul 16, 3:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 3:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 3:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:23 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:45 PM EDT, 2 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
Jul 16, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga	57 min
Jul 16, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Seneca, Yates	56 min
Jul 16, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Tompkins	55 min
Jul 16, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Yates	63 min
Jul 16, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	64 min
Jul 16, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Seneca	61 min
Jul 16, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tompkins, Yates	53 min
Jul 16, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Yates	45 min
Jul 16, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	62 min
Jul 16, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Otsego	40 min
Jul 16, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga	67 min
Jul 16, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Tompkins	21 min
Jul 16, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	46 min
Jul 16, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wyoming	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.