Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2008, 12:47 PM EDT for Chemung County, Steuben County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania. 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 17, 2008, 12:47 PM EDT (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2008, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chemung County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Bradford County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:48 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 17, 10:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 10:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1232 PM EDT THU JUL 17 2008 NYZ022-024-PAZ038-171730- BRADFORD PA-CHEMUNG NY-STEUBEN NY- 1232 PM EDT THU JUL 17 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 1231 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PAINTED POST...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GIBSON AND SOUTH CORNING AT 1240 PM EDT... EAST CORNING AT 1245 PM EDT... BIG FLATS AND TOMPKINS CORNERS AT 1250 PM EDT... ELMIRA ARPT AND BIG FLATS AIRPORT AT 1255 PM EDT... HORSEHEADS AND SAGETOWN AT 100 PM EDT... WEST ELMIRA AND ELMIRA HEIGHTS AT 105 PM EDT... ELMIRA AND PINE CITY AT 110 PM EDT... SOUTHPORT AT 115 PM EDT... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. ARNOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca, Tompkins | 52 min |
| Jul 16, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 9:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Yates | 53 min |
| Jul 17, 10:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Yates | 65 min |
| Jul 17, 11:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 37 min |
| Jul 17, 2:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Bradford | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 65 min |
| Jul 17, 3:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Luzerne | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2008Every 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.