Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2008, 1:04 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 56 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
- Aug 7, 2008, 1:04 PM EDT (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:04 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Aug 7, 11:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 11:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 10:39 AM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1039 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2008 NYZ009-018-036-037-071530- MADISON NY-ONEIDA NY-ONONDAGA NY- 1039 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 1036 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLAY...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 14 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CICERO AT 1045 AM EDT... NORTH SYRACUSE AND MATTYDALE AT 1050 AM EDT... EAST SYRACUSE AT 1110 AM EDT... DE WITT AT 1115 AM EDT... KIRKVILLE AND FAYETTEVILLE AT 1130 AM EDT... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. SCHAFFNER
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 11:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1149 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2008 NYZ009-018-036-037-071630- MADISON NY-ONEIDA NY-ONONDAGA NY- 1149 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 1142 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CANASTOTA...AND MOVING EAST AT 13 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SOUTH BAY AND VERONA BEACH AT 1155 AM EDT... ONEIDA AND NEW LONDON AT 1225 PM EDT... SHERRILL AT 1230 PM EDT... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. SCHAFFNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 4:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca | 82 min |
| Aug 7, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Steuben | 40 min |
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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.