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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 16, 20094 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2009, 2:43 PM EDT for 4 counties in 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 16, 2009, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2009, 3:25 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Cortland County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 16, 1:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jul 16, 1:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 1:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 12:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1232 PM EDT THU JUL 16 2009

NYZ018-161730-
ONONDAGA NY-
1232 PM EDT THU JUL 16 2009

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN ONONDAGA COUNTY...

* AT 1232 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF
  CICERO  THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
THE ONONDAGA OSWEGO COUNTY LINE THROUGH 130 PM EDT

PEA SIZED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

MSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango, Cortland, Madison47 min
Jul 16, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida36 min
Jul 16, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida43 min
Jul 16, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison, Otsego43 min
Jul 16, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan53 min
Jul 16, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyoming30 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.