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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 10, 20085 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2008, 7:02 PM EDT for 5 counties in 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: Aug 10, 2008, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 10, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 400 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 Aug 10, 7:01 PM EDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 7:01 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 6:50 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 10, 5:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 6:12 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 6:26 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 6:32 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 6:36 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 6:38 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
638 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0613 PM     HAIL             HOMER                   42.64N 76.18W
08/10/2008  E0.88 INCH       CORTLAND           NY   PUBLIC

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MJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Otsego	64 min
Aug 10, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango	67 min
Aug 10, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	65 min
Aug 10, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	65 min
Aug 10, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	54 min
Aug 10, 3:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Oneida	3 hr
Aug 10, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	56 min
Aug 10, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Otsego	53 min
Aug 10, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Delaware	63 min
Aug 10, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	63 min
Aug 10, 3:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	3 hr
Aug 10, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	61 min
Aug 10, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango	65 min
Aug 10, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland	55 min
Aug 10, 4:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Madison	56 min
Aug 10, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	59 min
Aug 10, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	48 min
Aug 10, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango	64 min
Aug 10, 5:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Tioga	84 min
Aug 10, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Tioga	53 min
Aug 10, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga	61 min
Aug 10, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	54 min
Aug 10, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Pike	62 min
Aug 10, 2:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna, Wayne	59 min
Aug 10, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne	61 min
Aug 10, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne, Wyoming	53 min
Aug 10, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	60 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.