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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 9, 2011Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2011, 5:45 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 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
Jun 9, 2011, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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
Jun 9, 12:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 734 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
734 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-235 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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 Jun 9, 5:26 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 5:26 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 5:09 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
407 PM EDT THU JUN 09 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0327 PM     TSTM WND DMG     HANCOCK                 41.95N  75.28W
06/09/2011                   DELAWARE           NY   PUBLIC

            TREES DOWN

&&

JML
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
410 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

NYZ056-PAZ039-092100-
BROOME NY-SUSQUEHANNA PA-
410 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN SUSQUEHANNA AND
SOUTHEASTERN BROOME COUNTIES...

* AT 406 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL.  THIS STORM
  WAS LOCATED NEAR BRACKNEY...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KIRKWOOD AT 415 PM EDT...
  HALLSTEAD AND GREAT BEND AT 420 PM EDT...
  HICKORY GROVE AT 425 PM EDT...
  LAKESIDE AT 430 PM EDT...
  SUSQUEHANNA AND LANESBORO AT 435 PM EDT...
  THOMPSON AT 440 PM EDT...
  ARARAT AT 445 PM EDT...

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

LAT...LON 4200 7545 4200 7548 4190 7548 4182 7549
      4188 7598 4206 7596 4205 7544

MSE
Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:49 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:52 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:23 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:33 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 9:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida62 min
Jun 8, 10:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango, Madison, Otsego36 min
Jun 8, 10:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOtsego26 min
Jun 8, 10:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOtsego40 min
Jun 8, 10:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango, Delaware, Otsego33 min
Jun 8, 11:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMCortland, Seneca56 min
Jun 8, 11:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware32 min
Jun 8, 11:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware45 min
Jun 9, 12:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSeneca29 min
Jun 9, 12:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOtsego51 min
Jun 9, 12:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison, Oneida, Otsego63 min
Jun 9, 12:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCayuga, Cortland44 min
Jun 9, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins60 min
Jun 9, 1:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Otsego56 min
Jun 9, 1:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Chenango, Tioga, Tompkins57 min
Jun 9, 1:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango, Cortland, Otsego67 min
Jun 9, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOtsego45 min
Jun 9, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango, Delaware, Otsego67 min
Jun 9, 2:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Chenango, Tioga66 min
Jun 9, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Tioga64 min
Jun 9, 2:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOtsego38 min
Jun 9, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware65 min
Jun 9, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Delaware, Sullivan59 min
Jun 9, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware, Sullivan88 min
Jun 9, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan79 min
Jun 9, 2:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBradford46 min
Jun 9, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBradford56 min
Jun 9, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBradford, Susquehanna65 min
Jun 9, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming77 min
Jun 9, 4:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSusquehanna50 min
Jun 9, 6:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMLuzerne51 min

Nearby

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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.