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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 22, 2012Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2012, 3:49 PM EDT for Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 26 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 22, 2012, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2012, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pike County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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
Jun 22, 4:03 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Dingmans Ferry, PA	MULTIPLE TREES DOWN IN DINGMANS FERRY

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
Jun 22, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 840 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

231 
WUUS51 KBGM 221949
SVRBGM
PAC103-222015-
/O.NEW.KBGM.SV.W.0039.120622T1949Z-120622T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
349 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT.

* AT 346 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  DINGMANS FERRY...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DINGMANS FERRY BY 356 PM EDT...
  6 MILES SOUTH OF MILFORD BY 412 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 STORM...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

&&

LAT...LON 4112 7502 4130 7506 4136 7470 4135 7470
      4134 7472 4134 7475 4129 7482 4124 7486
      4119 7487 4114 7491 4112 7495
TIME...MOT...LOC 1950Z 262DEG 17KT 4122 7492

$$

MSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Susquehanna	56 min
Jun 22, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	54 min
Jun 22, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	54 min
Jun 22, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne	42 min
Jun 22, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wayne	34 min
Jun 22, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Pike	56 min

Nearby

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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.