Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2008, 1:29 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Seneca County, Yates County, New York. It was in force for 37 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 21, 2008, 1:29 PM EDT (17:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2008, 2:06 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Yates County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:32 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 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.