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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2009, 7:47 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 43 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 2, 2009, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2009, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 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 23:47 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 2, 3:48 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:48 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 348 PM EDT THU JUL 2 2009 .SYNOPSIS... PERSISTENT UPPER-LEVEL LOW WILL REMAIN OUR DOMINANT WEATHER FEATURE THROUGH FRIDAY...CONTINUING THE THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ON SATURDAY...THIS SYSTEM WILL FINALLY BEGIN TO WEAKEN AND MOVE AWAY FROM THE REGION...ALLOWING DRIER WEATHER TO SET IN FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM FRIDAY MORNING/... CONVECTION DOTS MUCH OF THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND IT SHOULD PERSIST INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...AS THE LATEST UPPER- LEVEL WAVE ROTATES ACROSS NY/PA. NOT MUCH CHANGE FROM EARLIER THINKING WITH REGARDS TO THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...AS THE MAIN THREAT CONTINUES TO BE HEAVY RAIN FROM SLOW MOVING OR TRAINING CELLS. ANY SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE ISOLATED...AT BEST...GIVEN WEAK LOW TO MID-LEVEL WIND FIELDS IN PLACE...AND THE LACK OF ANY SIGNIFICANT DRY LAYERS ALOFT. SHOWERS SHOULD DECREASE SOMEWHAT IN COVERAGE LATER TONIGHT...AS THE ABOVE MENTIONED WAVE MOVES OFF TO THE NORTHEAST...AND DIURNAL STABILIZATION TAKES PLACE. STILL PLENTY OF RESIDUAL MOISTURE...THOUGH...SHOULD RESULT IN SOME LOWER CLOUD DEVELOPMENT...AND PERHAPS A COUPLE OF LINGERING SHOWERS. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY/... FRIDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING...MORE OF THE SAME...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS...PROBABLY MAXIMIZING IN COVERAGE DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOOKS TO BE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AS WELL...COINCIDING WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND THE PASSAGE OF ANOTHER UPPER-LEVEL WAVE. MODEL SOUNDING PROFILES WOULD INDICATE SOMEWHAT LESS INSTABILITY FRIDAY AFTERNOON...AS COMPARED TO THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS...SO THE COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE MORE LIMITED. SOME NOTICEABLE IMPROVEMENT MAY BE ON THE WAY FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY ITSELF...AS THE LATEST MODEL CONSENSUS NOW SHOWS THE MAIN UPPER LOW FILLING AND DRIFTING NORTHWARD THROUGH EASTERN CANADA. THIS SHOULD ALLOW RISING HEIGHTS AND DRIER AIR TO MOVE IN ON SATURDAY. BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...A PROGRESSIVE NORTHERN STREAM TROUGH IS PROGGED TO APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST. AS A RESULT...WEVE INSERTED A CHANCE OF SHOWERS THIS PERIOD. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/... ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL CONSENSUS OF GLOBAL MODEL GUIDANCE...THIS PERIOD WILL FEATURE THE REAMPLIFICATION OF ANOTHER TROF/CUTOFF LOW OVER THE NORTHEAST BY THE WEDS-THURS TIME PERIOD. IF CURRENT SOLUTIONS PAN OUT...THIS CASE WILL ACTUALLY PUT US ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE LOW...AND ALTHOUGH THERE WILL BE CHANCES OF SHOWERS TUES-WEDS...WERE NOT EXPECTING TO BE AS WET AS THIS CURRENT WEEK WITH MAINLY JUST SCATTERED DAYTIME AND EARLY EVENING SHOWERS UNDERNEATH THE COLD POOL. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN FROM THE GTLKS SHOULD ALLOW FOR DRY WX THURSDAY. NO EXTREMES IN TEMPERATURES WERE NOTED WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S AND LOWS IN THE 50S. && .AVIATION /20Z THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... UPPER LOW STILL POISED OVER LOWER ONTARIO AND WRN LAKE ONTARIO...WITH YET ANOTHER AFTERNOON COMPRISED OF MIXED VFR/MVFR CIGS WITH CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AROUND THE REGION...AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVIER DOWNPOURS MAY EVEN BRING 15 MINUTES OF IFR VSBY RESTRICTIONS. NOT EXPECTING A WHOLE LOT OF ACTIVITY IN THE TERMINALS FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME TODAY...BUT IT/S LIKELY THEY WILL ALL EXPERIENCE AT LEAST ONE SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM SO HAVE INCLUDED TEMPO GROUPS. LOW CONFIDENCE ON THUNDER...SO HAVE INDICATED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ONLY WITH CB GROUPS. THE SPOKE OF ENERGY DRIVING THESE SHOWERS WILL ROTATE TO OUR NORTHEAST BY EARLY EVENING. EXPECT TO SEE A BREAK WITH LOWER CLOUDS SCATTERING OUT TO HIGHER DECK VFR CIGS. DEEP MOISTURE IN THE BLYR WILL AGAIN CAUSE FOG AND STRATUS CLOUDS TO FORM WITH MVFR AND POSSIBLY IFR RESTRICTIONS AGAIN AFT 05Z THROUGH SUNRISE. CIG RESTRICTIONS ONLY SLOWLY IMPROVE THROUGH MVFR DURG LATE MORNING BUT SHOULD REACH AT LEAST OCNL VFR BTWN 15Z-18Z. OUTLOOK... FRI...MVFR AM. VFR PM. SAT...EARLY AM MVFR LOCAL IFR...IMPROVING TO VFR. SUN-TUES...VFR. && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...MLJ NEAR TERM...MLJ SHORT TERM...MLJ LONG TERM...JAB AVIATION...JAB
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 3:52 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 352 PM EDT THU JUL 2 2009 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043- 044-047-048-072-032000- 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- 352 PM EDT THU JUL 2 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND LOCALIZED RUNOFF PROBLEMS. ISOLATED STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE HAIL. LATER TONIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD TAKE PLACE LOCALLY THROUGH THIS EVENING. MJ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 2:46 PM EDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 246 PM EDT THU JUL 2 2009 NYZ044-045-056-PAZ039-021945- BROOME NY-CHENANGO NY-CORTLAND NY-SUSQUEHANNA PA- 246 PM EDT THU JUL 2 2009 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT CHENANGO...EASTERN BROOME...EASTERN CORTLAND AND SUSQUEHANNA COUNTIES... AT 240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM TAYLOR AND CINCINNATUS SOUTH TO CHENANGO FORKS AND BINGHAMTON TO RUSH AND AUBURN CENTER. THIS LINE IS SLOWLY MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. WATSON
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:23 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 423 PM EDT THU JUL 2 2009 NYZ045-046-057-062-022130- CHENANGO NY-DELAWARE NY-OTSEGO NY-SULLIVAN NY- 423 PM EDT THU JUL 2 2009 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL DELAWARE... EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL SULLIVAN...EXTREME NORTHEASTERN CHENANGO AND OTSEGO COUNTIES... * AT 421 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PITTSFIELD TO OTEGO TO 8 MILES WEST OF HARVARD...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... WALTON AT 445 PM EDT... ONEONTA AT 450 PM EDT... HARTWICK AT 505 PM EDT... MEREDITH AT 515 PM EDT... MARYLAND AND DELHI AT 525 PM EDT... DAVENPORT AND COOPERSTOWN AT 530 PM EDT... THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. HEAVY RAINS COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. WATSON
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 7:43 PM EDT, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 111 min |
| Jul 1, 11:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Luzerne | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna | 118 min |
| Jul 2, 6:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming | 110 min |
| Jul 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Bradford | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | 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.