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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 26, 2011Delaware County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT for Delaware County, New York. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Delaware County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 6:20 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Grand Gorge, NY	TREES AND WIRES DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 2:16 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

397 
WFUS51 KBGM 262200
TORBGM
NYC025-262230-
/O.NEW.KBGM.TO.W.0019.110526T2200Z-110526T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
600 PM EDT THU MAY 26 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL DELAWARE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

* AT 558 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  MARGARETVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ARKVILLE BY 605 PM EDT...
  FLEISCHMANNS BY 610 PM EDT...
  ROXBURY BY 620 PM EDT...

WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY...PLEASE REPORT HAIL...OR DAMAGING WINDS TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT
1-877-633-6772...OR BY EMAIL AT BGM.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT
OR AN INTERIOR ROOM...AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 4221 7452 4220 7452 4217 7446 4216 7447
      4214 7453 4210 7458 4205 7470 4205 7472
      4215 7483 4238 7449 4235 7442 4234 7443
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 229DEG 29KT 4214 7466

$$

HEDEN

1 follow-up statement

275 
WWUS51 KBGM 262221
SVSBGM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
621 PM EDT THU MAY 26 2011

NYC025-262230-
/O.CON.KBGM.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-110526T2230Z/
DELAWARE NY-
621 PM EDT THU MAY 26 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL DELAWARE COUNTY...

AT 619 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FLEISCHMANNS...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL...OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1-877-633-6772...OR BY EMAIL AT
BGM.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

&&

LAT...LON 4221 7452 4220 7452 4217 7446 4216 7447
      4214 7453 4211 7457 4225 7469 4238 7449
      4235 7442 4234 7443
TIME...MOT...LOC 2222Z 241DEG 25KT 4220 7449

$$

HEDEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 11:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	36 min
May 26, 12:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben	35 min
May 26, 12:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Seneca, Yates	34 min
May 26, 12:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and 1 more	43 min
May 26, 1:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Tioga	63 min
May 26, 1:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca and 2 more	55 min
May 26, 1:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	30 min
May 26, 1:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cortland, Madison, Onondaga	25 min
May 26, 2:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Oneida and 1 more	53 min
May 26, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga	52 min
May 26, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chemung	38 min
May 26, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chemung	27 min
May 26, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins	62 min
May 26, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Tompkins	55 min
May 26, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	39 min
May 26, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan	62 min
May 26, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Tompkins	40 min
May 26, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Tioga	55 min
May 26, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	57 min
May 26, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	48 min
May 26, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Tioga	62 min
May 26, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	17 min
May 26, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Madison	64 min
May 26, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	57 min
May 26, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	52 min
May 26, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	43 min
May 26, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	24 min
May 26, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.