Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2009, 9:56 AM EDT for Cayuga County, Onondaga County, Seneca County, New York. It was in force for 42 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 11, 2009, 9:56 AM EDT (13:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2009, 10:38 AM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Seneca County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:56 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1554 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 Jul 11, 6:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 6:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 9:49 AM EDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 949 AM EDT SAT JUL 11 2009 NYZ016>018-111445- CAYUGA NY-ONONDAGA NY-SENECA NY- 949 AM EDT SAT JUL 11 2009 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SENECA...SOUTHERN CAYUGA AND WESTERN ONONDAGA COUNTIES... * AT 942 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WATERLOO TO KENDAIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... TYRE AND SENECA FALLS AT 955 AM EDT... MONTEZUMA AND LEHIGH VLY JCT AT 1000 AM EDT... WILLETS AND UNION SPRINGS AT 1005 AM EDT... LEVANNA AT 1010 AM EDT... THROOPSVILLE AND MAPLETON AT 1015 AM EDT... VENICE CENTER AND SENNETT AT 1020 AM EDT... JORDAN AND WYCKOFF AT 1025 AM EDT... ELBRIDGE AND JACKS REEF AT 1030 AM EDT... THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY IF ON OR NEAR THE NORTHERN HALVES OF SENECA AND CAYUGA LAKES...AS WELL AS OWASCO...OTISCO AND SKANEATELES LAKES...SEEK SHELTER NOW. GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. TAC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben | 68 min |
| Jul 11, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins | 52 min |
| Jul 11, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Tioga | 65 min |
| Jul 11, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben, Yates | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.