Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2011, 2:43 AM EDT for Chenango County, Cortland County, Madison County, New York. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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 28, 2011, 2:43 AM EDT (06:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2011, 3:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Madison County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:45 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 28, 3:00 AM EDT | TORNADO | Pharsalia, NY | AN EF2 TORNADO WITH A PATH LENGTH OF 8 MILES AND A WIDTH OF 400 YARDS PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE AND SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. HUNDREDS OF LARGE TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED IN A DENSELY FORESTED AREA. A HOUSE TRAILER WAS LIFTED AND DEMOLISHED...AND A T |
| Apr 28, 3:20 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Pharsalia, NY | POSSIBLE TORNADO. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN NORTH ROAD AND CENTER ROAD AREAS. |
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, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
872
WFUS51 KBGM 280643
TORBGM
NYC017-023-053-280730-
/O.NEW.KBGM.TO.W.0009.110428T0643Z-110428T0730Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
243 AM EDT THU APR 28 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CHENANGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...
SOUTHEASTERN CORTLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...
MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...
* UNTIL 330 AM EDT.
* AT 241 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TAYLOR...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
OTSELIC BY 300 AM EDT...
GEORGETOWN BY 305 AM EDT...
LEBANON BY 310 AM EDT...
EARLVILLE BY 315 AM EDT...
HAMILTON...PECKSPORT AND EATON BY 320 AM EDT...
MADISON BY 325 AM 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 4303 7554 4294 7554 4294 7545 4287 7543
4287 7532 4241 7597 4253 7615 4304 7556
TIME...MOT...LOC 0644Z 226DEG 33KT 4260 7587
$$
MLJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca, Yates | 65 min |
| Apr 27, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga and 4 more | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Tioga | 43 min |
| Apr 27, 9:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Chemung | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca, Yates | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga | 41 min |
| Apr 27, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Delaware, Madison, Oneida, Otsego | 57 min |
| Apr 27, 10:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 10:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware, Otsego | 55 min |
| Apr 27, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 54 min |
| Apr 27, 11:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Steuben | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Schuyler | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 1:05 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tompkins | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Chemung | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 1:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 1:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 1:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Cortland, Tompkins | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 2:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Chenango, Tioga | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 2:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Cortland, Madison, Onondaga | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 2:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Cortland, Madison | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 2:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 3:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chemung, Tioga | 10 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chenango, Madison, Oneida | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 3:12 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chenango, Cortland | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 3:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins | 10 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Madison, Oneida | 10 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Oneida | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 3:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Cortland | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 3:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 3:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chenango, Madison, Oneida | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 3:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Tioga | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 4:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Oneida | 19 min |
| Apr 28, 4:12 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Chenango, Delaware | 53 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:12 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Chemung | 25 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:12 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Chemung | 25 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:12 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Chenango | 29 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:12 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Broome | 29 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:12 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Cortland | 25 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:12 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chenango, Madison | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 4:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Otsego | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 4:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 4:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware, Otsego | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 5:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan | 66 min |
| Apr 28, 5:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Delaware | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 6:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 6:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 7:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 7:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 15 min |
| Apr 28, 7:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 9:12 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BGM | Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Schuyler and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware, Sullivan | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 9:37 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware, Otsego | 30 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:37 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Chenango | 45 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware, Otsego | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 9:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 10:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware | 19 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BGM | Otsego | 8 hr |
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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.