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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 16, 2008Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2008, 2:23 PM EDT for Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 37 min. 10 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2008, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2008, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Onondaga County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 2:26 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Jordan, NY
Jun 16, 2:39 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Baldwinsville, NY
Jun 16, 2:40 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Village Green, NY
Jun 16, 2:47 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Liverpool, NY
Jun 16, 2:52 PM EDT	HAIL 1	North Syracuse, NY
Jun 16, 3:00 PM EDT	HAIL 0.88	North Syracuse, NY
Jun 16, 3:00 PM EDT	HAIL 1.25	Syracuse, NY
Jun 16, 3:05 PM EDT	HAIL 1	4 N Syracuse, NY
Jun 16, 3:06 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	5 Ne Syracuse, NY
Jun 16, 3:10 PM EDT	HAIL 1.5	Lyncourt, NY	ONE INCH HAIL ALSO REPORTED AT THIS TIME.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 16, 11:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS51 KBGM 161823
TORBGM
NYC067-161900-
/O.NEW.KBGM.TO.W.0002.080616T1823Z-080616T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
223 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL ONONDAGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 218 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR JORDAN...
  MOVING EAST AT 41 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BALDWINSVILLE BY 230 PM EDT...
  CAMILLUS...VILLAGE GREEN AND MARCELLUS BY 235 PM EDT...
  WESTVALE...FAIRMOUNT AND LIVERPOOL BY 240 PM EDT...
  SYRACUSE...WESTVALE AND ONONDAGA BY 245 PM EDT...
  DE WITT AND EAST SYRACUSE BY 250 PM EDT...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT
OR AN INTERIOR ROOM...AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL...OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1-877-633-6772...OR BY EMAIL AT
BGM.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.

LAT...LON 4314 7595 4311 7598 4310 7598 4310 7593
      4287 7601 4298 7646 4301 7646 4302 7649
      4311 7649 4313 7647 4318 7648
TIME...MOT...LOC 1823Z 279DEG 36KT 4309 7647

$$


MSE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBGM 161853
SVSBGM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
253 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2008

NYC067-161900-
/O.CON.KBGM.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080616T1900Z/
ONONDAGA NY-
253 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL
ONONDAGA COUNTY...

AT 252 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS 
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SOLVAY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SYRACUSE...LYNCOURT AND MATTYDALE AROUND 300 PM EDT...

HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED AT MANY LOCATIONS 
ACROSS WESTERN ONONDAGA COUNTY.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL...OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1-877-633-6772...OR BY EMAIL AT
BGM.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.

LAT...LON 4314 7595 4311 7598 4310 7598 4310 7593
      4287 7601 4298 7646 4301 7646 4302 7649
      4311 7649 4313 7647 4318 7648
TIME...MOT...LOC 1853Z 276DEG 30KT 4306 7622

$$


MSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland, Otsego	52 min
Jun 16, 12:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Madison, Otsego	46 min
Jun 16, 12:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Otsego	62 min
Jun 16, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	60 min
Jun 16, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tompkins	67 min
Jun 16, 1:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chenango, Otsego	3 hr
Jun 16, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	33 min
Jun 16, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Otsego	44 min
Jun 16, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Madison, Onondaga	65 min
Jun 16, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Yates	57 min
Jun 16, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego	56 min
Jun 16, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	58 min
Jun 16, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca	49 min
Jun 16, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	60 min
Jun 16, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cortland, Tompkins	48 min
Jun 16, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins	62 min
Jun 16, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	66 min
Jun 16, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben	35 min
Jun 16, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	40 min
Jun 16, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Madison, Onondaga	46 min
Jun 16, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	61 min
Jun 16, 3:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Sullivan	31 min
Jun 16, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	34 min
Jun 16, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	31 min
Jun 16, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	27 min
Jun 16, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Otsego	54 min
Jun 16, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	53 min
Jun 16, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	75 min
Jun 16, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca	38 min
Jun 16, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Tompkins	33 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.