Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2011, 7:56 PM EDT for 6 counties in New York. It was in force for 64 min. 5 reports 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
- Apr 27, 2011, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2011, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chemung County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Campbell, NY | ROOF BLOWN OFF HOUSE |
| Apr 27, 8:04 PM EDT | TORNADO | Campbell, NY | A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN THE TOWN OF CAMPBELL...JUST WEST OF HOUGH ROAD...AT ABOUT 804 PM. THE TORNADO REACHED A PEAK INTENSITY OF EF1...AT SEVERAL POINTS ALONG ITS PATH. MAXIMUM WINDS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 100 MPH...WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF AROUND 150 YA |
| Apr 27, 8:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Painted Post, NY | LARGE TREE BRANCHES BROKEN |
| Apr 27, 8:25 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ne Millport, NY | SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO BARN TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN |
| Apr 27, 8:32 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 N Odessa, NY | 4 LARGE TREES 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
231 WFUS51 KBGM 272356 TORBGM NYC015-097-099-101-109-123-280100- /O.NEW.KBGM.TO.W.0005.110427T2356Z-110428T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 756 PM EDT WED APR 27 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CHEMUNG COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... SCHUYLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN SENECA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... EAST CENTRAL STEUBEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... WESTERN TOMPKINS COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN YATES COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... * UNTIL 900 PM EDT. * AT 754 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CAMPBELL... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MEADS CREEK BY 805 PM EDT... MONTEREY AND HORNBY BY 810 PM EDT... WEDGEWOOD BY 825 PM EDT... MONTOUR FALLS...WATKINS GLEN AND BURDETT BY 830 PM EDT... BURDETT BY 835 PM EDT... REYNOLDSVILLE BY 840 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 4262 7661 4239 7644 4209 7724 4224 7736 TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 239DEG 32KT 4221 7720 $$ PVN
2 follow-up statements
887
WWUS51 KBGM 280029
SVSBGM
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
829 PM EDT WED APR 27 2011
NYC101-280038-
/O.CAN.KBGM.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110428T0100Z/
STEUBEN NY-
829 PM EDT WED APR 27 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL STEUBEN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
PLEASE REPORT HAIL...OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1-877-633-6772...OR BY EMAIL AT
BGM.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM EDT THURSDAY
MORNING FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4262 7661 4239 7644 4219 7697 4227 7697
4228 7710 4237 7710
TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 239DEG 32KT 4236 7687
$$
NYC015-097-099-109-123-280100-
/O.CON.KBGM.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110428T0100Z/
TOMPKINS NY-SCHUYLER NY-CHEMUNG NY-SENECA NY-YATES NY-
829 PM EDT WED APR 27 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN YATES...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN SENECA...NORTHWESTERN
CHEMUNG...SCHUYLER AND WESTERN TOMPKINS COUNTIES...
AT 824 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WEDGEWOOD...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
ANOTHER ROTATING STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED
NEAR MILLPORT IN NORTHERN CHEMUNG COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
MECKLENBURG BY 845 PM EDT...
TRUMANSBURG AND COVERT BY 855 PM EDT...
ITHACA BY 900 PM EDT...
BURDETT AND ALPINE BY 835 PM EDT...
REYNOLDSVILLE BY 840 PM EDT...
ENFIELD...NEWFIELD AND SEARSBURG BY 850 PM EDT...
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 WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
&&
LAT...LON 4262 7661 4239 7644 4219 7697 4227 7697
4228 7710 4237 7710
TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 239DEG 32KT 4236 7687
$$
PVN707
WWUS51 KBGM 280052
SVSBGM
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
852 PM EDT WED APR 27 2011
NYC015-097-099-109-123-280102-
/O.EXP.KBGM.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110428T0100Z/
TOMPKINS NY-SCHUYLER NY-CHEMUNG NY-SENECA NY-YATES NY-
852 PM EDT WED APR 27 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN YATES...EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN SENECA...NORTHWESTERN CHEMUNG...SCHUYLER AND WESTERN
TOMPKINS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 900 PM EDT...
PLEASE REPORT HAIL...OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1-877-633-6772...OR BY EMAIL AT
BGM.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM EDT THURSDAY
MORNING FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4262 7661 4239 7644 4219 7697 4227 7697
4228 7710 4237 7710
TIME...MOT...LOC 0052Z 239DEG 32KT 4247 7662
$$
PVNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 8:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 9:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Tioga | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 9:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Otsego | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 9:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Sullivan | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Otsego | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 10:02 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Tioga | 5 days |
| Apr 26, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 68 min |
| Apr 26, 10:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware, Otsego | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Sullivan | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 12:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 65 min |
| Apr 27, 1:09 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Broome | 4 days |
| Apr 27, 1:09 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 4 days |
| Apr 27, 6:00 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Broome | 58 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:02 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Onondaga | 11 days |
| Apr 27, 11:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BGM | Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more | 27 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:27 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Onondaga | 82 min |
| Apr 27, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Delaware | 57 min |
| Apr 27, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben, Yates | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Steuben, Yates | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca | 62 min |
| Apr 27, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins | 55 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.