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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 24, 2009Chenango County, Madison County, Oneida County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2009, 5:44 PM EDT for Chenango County, Madison County, Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 61 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 24, 2009, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2009, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Chenango County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 255 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 59 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 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 24, 3:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 3:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
304 PM EDT FRI JUL 24 2009

.SYNOPSIS...
WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA TONIGHT BRING AN END
TO OUR SHOWERS AND STORMS OVERNIGHT. LOW PRESSURE OVER THE GREAT
LAKES WILL PUSH A FRONT THROUGH THE AREA LATE SATURDAY AND BRING
ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT AND
SUNDAY.

&&

.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM SATURDAY MORNING/...
SHRT WV MVG THRU WRN NY ATTM HELPING TO TRIGGER SCT SHWRS AND
STORMS OVER THE AREA. ELECTED TO KEEP LIKELY POS FOR A FEW HRS
THIS EVE MAINLY DUE TO THE GOOD CVRG OF THE STORMS CRNTLY ON THE
RADAR MOSAIC. LTR THIS EVE...SHRT WV PULLS NE AND THE AREA COMES
UNDER AN ANREA OF WEAK DVM BRINGING AN END TO THE SHWRS AND EVEN
ALLOWING THE SKIES TO CLR. HIER DEW PTS WITH MOD CROSSOVER TEMPS
WILL WORK WITH LGT WINDS TO ALLOW CNSRBL FOG TO FORM OVRNGT.

&&

.SHORT TERM /6 AM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY /...

SRT WV RDG AND DRIER AIR BLDS FOR SAT AHD OF THE NEXT SHRT WV.
THIS NEXT WV LOOKS QUITE STRONG AND HAS A SFC REFLECTION IN THE
FORM OF AN OPEN WV AND SHRP SFC TROF. THIS SHD TRIGGER A BKN LINE
AND AREA OF SHWRS AND TRWS LATE SAT AND SAT NGT AS IT ROTATES
THRU THE OLD CLSD LOW. FNT STALLS AND WEAKENS SUN AS IT BECOMES
PARALLEL TO THE LOW LVL FLOW. THIS SHD RESULT IN CONT SHWRS AND
TRWS DURING THE DAY.

ON SUN...UPR LOW FINALLY BEGINS TO LIFT NWRD IN RESPONSE TO THE
WRN ATLANTIC RDG...WHICH BEGINS TO SHOW SIGNS OF BLDG WWRD. THIS
ALLOWS THE FCST AREA TO FNLY SEE SOME BLDG HGTS AND WRMR AIR.
HWVR...CYCLONIC FLOW CONTS OVER THE FCST AREA SO THE THREAT OF SCT
CONV CONTS...ESP IN THE AFTN WITH MAX HTG. ON MON...FLOW BECOMES A
BIT FLATTER AS THE RDG CONTS TO BLD...BUT STILL SOME RIPPLES
PASSING BY MAY HELP TO TRIGGER AFTN CONV.

&&

.LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
THIS PERIOD WILL BE CHARACTERIZED BY A MOIST SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW
PATTERN...AS A RIDGE SLOWLY BUILDS TOWARDS US FROM THE WESTERN
ATLANTIC...AND A TROUGH GRADUALLY FILLS ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES
REGION. THIS GENERALLY SPELLS NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES (DAYTIME
HIGHS NOT FAR FROM 80)...AND A DAILY CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS.

FROM THIS EARLY VANTAGE POINT...THE MOST WIDESPREAD SHOWERS MAY
COME LATER WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...AS A SLOW MOVING FRONT
APPROACHES THE REGION. FOR THE REST OF THIS TIME FRAME...SHOWERS
SHOULD BE MORE SCATTERED IN NATURE...AND CONCENTRATED MOSTLY
DURING THE AFTERNOON OR EVENING HOURS.

&&

.AVIATION /19Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
MOSTLY VFR EXPECTED THROUGH 18Z SATURDAY...WITH PERHAPS BRIEF
RESTRICTIONS IN PASSING SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON.

THE ONLY OTHER SIGNIFICANT ISSUE THIS PERIOD IS KELM LATE
TONIGHT/EARLY SATURDAY...WHEN A PERIOD OF IFR FOG IS FORESEEN.
THIS FOG SHOULD BURN OFF BY MID-MORNING SATURDAY.

WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 10 KT THIS AFTERNOON...SHOULD
BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE OVERNIGHT...THEN PICK UP AGAIN BY MIDDAY
SATURDAY TO 10-15 KT FROM THE SOUTH.

OUTLOOK...

SAT NGT AND SUN...RESTRICTIONS LIKELY DEVELOPING...AS
SHOWERS/POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE IN.

MON AND TUE...MAINLY VFR RETURNS...BUT BRIEF RESTRICTIONS POSSIBLE
IN AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. EARLY MORNING RESTRICTIONS
ALSO POSSIBLE IN FOG...MOSTLY KELM.

&&

.BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
PA...NONE.
NY...NONE.

&&

SYNOPSIS...DGM
NEAR TERM...DGM
SHORT TERM...DGM
LONG TERM...MLJ
AVIATION...MLJ
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 2:51 AM EDT, 14 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
251 AM EDT FRI JUL 24 2009

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-
044-047-048-072-250700-
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-
251 AM EDT FRI JUL 24 2009

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON.
A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...WIND GUSTS OF 30
TO 40 MPH...AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. ISOLATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE A POSSIBILITY.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 4:56 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMOnondaga73 min
Jul 24, 5:40 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMChenango, Madison2 hr
Jul 24, 6:32 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMSullivan3 hr
Jul 24, 6:57 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMSullivan3 hr
Jul 24, 7:55 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMSullivan2 hr

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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.