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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 11, 2011Steuben County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2011, 5:58 PM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 11, 2011, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Steuben County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 11, 6:18 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Addison, NY	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON CLEVELAND DR.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

374 
WFUS51 KBGM 112158
TORBGM
NYC101-112230-
/O.NEW.KBGM.TO.W.0022.110611T2158Z-110611T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
558 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN STEUBEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

* AT 553 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WOODHULL...
  MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ADDISON BY 610 PM EDT...
  ERWINS BY 625 PM EDT...
  LINDLEY AND 6 MILES WEST OF CATON BY 630 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.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

&&

LAT...LON 4218 7739 4212 7697 4200 7701 4199 7732
      4200 7742 4200 7745
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 284DEG 14KT 4207 7730

$$

CMG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Yates	39 min
Jun 11, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Steuben	66 min
Jun 11, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Schuyler, Steuben, Yates	66 min
Jun 11, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Seneca, Yates	55 min
Jun 11, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Yates	55 min
Jun 11, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben and 1 more	65 min
Jun 11, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Steuben	42 min
Jun 11, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	40 min
Jun 11, 3:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	3 hr
Jun 11, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome, Tioga	45 min
Jun 11, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	45 min
Jun 11, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Steuben	62 min
Jun 11, 6:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	3 hr
Jun 11, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Seneca, Yates	59 min
Jun 11, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben	45 min
Jun 11, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	57 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.