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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2011, 6:57 PM EDT for Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 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 9, 2011, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2011, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
County Wayne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 9, 3:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 3:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 319 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011 .SYNOPSIS... AS ONE LOW EXITS THE AREA TONIGHT, ANOTHER WILL APPROACH TOMORROW, ALONG WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR WEDNESDAY BEFORE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN AND BRINGS QUIETER WEATHER FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL EXIT THE AREA THIS EVENING. MOST OF THE RAIN HAS BEEN NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE CWA. THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING BEFORE QUIETING DOWN FOR THE NIGHT. THERE MAY BE SOME FOG DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AS THERE IS PLENTY OF MOISTURE REMAINING OVER THE REGION. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM BEHIND TODAYS LOW WILL BRING A WEAK COLD FRONT THROUGH THE CWA TOMORROW. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE CWA. MODELS DISAGREE ON CAPE VALUES FOR TOMORROW. GFS, SHOWING ONLY AROUND 400 TO 500 JOULES IS MUCH LOWER THAN THE NAM, SHOWING UP NEAR 1500 JOULES. HAVE CHANCE POPS WITH MAINLY ISOLD THUNDERSTORMS TOMORROW. ONCE THIS FRONT MAKES ITS WAY THROUGH, SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR SHOULD MOVE IN AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE CWA FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. WHILE POPS ARE KEPT LOW ENOUGH TO KEEP ANY WORDING OUT OF THE FORECAST, THERE IS A VERY SLIGHT POSSIBILITY OF A POP UP SHOWER ON THURSDAY. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... 3 PM UPDATE... FOLLOWED HPC GUIDANCE CLOSELY WITH TIME LIMITED AND THUNDERSTORMS GETTING STRONGER. MODELS CLOSE WITH HIGH PRESSURE EXITING TO THE EAST EARLY SATURDAY BEFORE ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROF AND SFC WAVE MOVES SLOWLY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT TO MONDAY. CHC POPS SATURDAY TO MONDAY. HIGH PRESSURE AGAIN ON TUESDAY WITH DRY WEATHER. TEMPERATURES START OUT SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THEN FALL TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL. && .AVIATION /19Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... 2 PM UPDATE... SFC LOW WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD JUST AHEAD OF IT. BRIEF MVFR AND IFR VSBYS...WHILE THE CIGS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY VFR AND OCNL MVFR. THE WINDS SHIFT FROM SSE TO W WITH THE FRONT. BEHIND IT MORE SHOWERS WITH SCATTERED COVERAGE. THESE SHOWERS WILL DIE AROUND SUNSET. LATE TONIGHT CIGS AND VSBYS FALLING TO MVFR. BY 16Z WED CONDITIONS IMPROVE BACK TO VFR. SE TO S WINDS AT 5 TO 10 KTS AT TAF SITES SHIFTING TO W BY 00Z. OVERNIGHT WINDS GO LIGHT AND VARIABLE BEFORE INCREASING TO 10 KTS OUT OF THE WEST LATE MORNING. OUTLOOK... WEDNESDAY AFTN...VFR WITH LOCAL RESTRICTIONS PSBL IN MAINLY AFTN SHWRS/TSTMS. THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING...VFR. SATURDAY AFTN TO SUNDAY...VFR. RESTRICTIONS POSSIBLE DUE TO SHRA/TSRA. && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...SLI NEAR TERM...SLI SHORT TERM...SLI LONG TERM...TAC AVIATION...TAC
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 6:55 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 4:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 441 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011 PAZ043-047-092130- LUZERNE PA-WYOMING PA- 441 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN LUZERNE AND SOUTHERN WYOMING COUNTIES... * AT 437 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES WEST OF SWEET VALLEY...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KASSON BROOK AT 510 PM EDT... SWEET VALLEY AT 515 PM EDT... PIKES CREEK AND MUHLENBERG AT 520 PM EDT... LEHMAN AND HARVEYS LAKE AT 525 PM EDT... DALLAS AND FERN BROOK AT 530 PM EDT... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. LAT...LON 4124 7629 4148 7625 4149 7587 4112 7578 MANNING
Local storm report, Aug 9, 5:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 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 9, 1:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Yates | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Yates | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Madison, Onondaga, Seneca | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Tompkins | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Broome, Tioga, Tompkins | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Broome | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Oneida | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Delaware, Otsego | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 5:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Oneida | 91 min |
| Aug 9, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware, Otsego | 81 min |
| Aug 9, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Luzerne | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Luzerne | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Luzerne | 28 min |
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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.