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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 10, 2008Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2008, 7:27 PM EDT for Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 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: Jun 10, 2008, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2008, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pike County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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
Jun 10, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 1481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 Jun 10, 7:24 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 7:24 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 3:07 PM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
307 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-
044-047-048-072-111915-
NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN-
SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO-
OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA-
NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE-
307 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 501 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW
YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

MJ

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 5:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 5:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 6:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:46 PM EDT, 41 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
Jun 10, 10:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Madison, Onondaga, Seneca	45 min
Jun 10, 11:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca	51 min
Jun 10, 11:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	42 min
Jun 10, 11:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Tompkins	60 min
Jun 10, 11:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	34 min
Jun 10, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	52 min
Jun 10, 12:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	47 min
Jun 10, 12:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	35 min
Jun 10, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	47 min
Jun 10, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	53 min
Jun 10, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	50 min
Jun 10, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Seneca, Steuben, Yates	38 min
Jun 10, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	32 min
Jun 10, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Tompkins	50 min
Jun 10, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	49 min
Jun 10, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	32 min
Jun 10, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins	44 min
Jun 10, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	41 min
Jun 10, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	46 min
Jun 10, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Madison, Otsego	33 min
Jun 10, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	65 min
Jun 10, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	29 min
Jun 10, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	38 min
Jun 10, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	49 min
Jun 10, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford, Luzerne, Wyoming	43 min
Jun 10, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	50 min
Jun 10, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Pike	50 min
Jun 10, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne	46 min
Jun 10, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, Wyoming	43 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.