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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2009, 3:36 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 19, 2009, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2009, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Aug 19, 3:10 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 3:10 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 117 PM EDT WED AUG 19 2009 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055-056-201730- NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN- SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO- OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME- 117 PM EDT WED AUG 19 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY DEVELOP FROM FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY MORNING AS A COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED DURING THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ057-062-PAZ038>040-043-044-047-048-072-201730- DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA-NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING- LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE- 117 PM EDT WED AUG 19 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN TYPICAL LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG TOWN AND VILLAGE STREETS. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY DEVELOP FROM FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY MORNING AS A COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED DURING THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH EARLY EVENING.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 19, 2:58 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 1:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 3:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming | 3 hr |
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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.