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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 7, 2011Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2011, 4:21 PM EDT for Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 69 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 7, 2011, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2011, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 165 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

931 
WWUS81 KBGM 072021
SPSBGM

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
421 PM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011

NYZ056-062-PAZ039-040-043-044-072-072130-
BROOME NY-LACKAWANNA PA-SULLIVAN NY-SUSQUEHANNA PA-WAYNE PA-WYOMING
PA-
421 PM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011

...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EXTREME NORTHEASTERN
WYOMING...NORTHEASTERN LACKAWANNA...NORTHERN WAYNE...SOUTH CENTRAL
BROOME...SUSQUEHANNA AND WEST CENTRAL SULLIVAN COUNTIES...

* AT 420 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND
  VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM HALLSTEAD TO MONTROSE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  SUSQUEHANNA AND LANESBORO AT 430 PM EDT...
  SOUTH MONTROSE AND NEW MILFORD AT 435 PM EDT...
  LAKEVIEW AND DIMOCK AT 440 PM EDT...
  ALFORD AT 445 PM EDT...
  THOMPSON AND STARRUCA AT 450 PM EDT...
  HARFORD AT 455 PM EDT...
  ORSON AND SHEHAWKEN AT 500 PM EDT...
  LAKEWOOD AND PRESTON PARK AT 505 PM EDT...

THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE
HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

LAT...LON 4188 7533 4167 7496 4150 7557 4170 7583
      4190 7612 4204 7567

$$

SLI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Schuyler, Tompkins	61 min
Aug 7, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome	64 min
Aug 7, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca	40 min
Aug 7, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Delaware, Sullivan	41 min
Aug 7, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga	45 min
Aug 7, 4:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Delaware	117 min
Aug 7, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Madison	60 min
Aug 7, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	54 min
Aug 7, 5:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Otsego	103 min
Aug 7, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	41 min
Aug 7, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna, Wyoming	64 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.