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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2012, 1:19 PM EDT for Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2012, 1:19 PM EDT (17:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2012, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
County Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1053 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 18, 9:57 AM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 9:57 AM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 1:01 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 101 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012 NYZ022-024-055>057-PAZ038-039-191700- STEUBEN-CHEMUNG-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA- 101 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A SOUTHWARD MOVING COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD POSSIBLY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL END LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ009-015>018-023-025-036-037-044>046-191700- NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-SCHUYLER- TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO-OTSEGO- 101 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ062-PAZ040-043-044-047-048-072-191700- SULLIVAN-NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE- SOUTHERN WAYNE- 101 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 491 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A SOUTHWARD MOVING COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL END THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:19 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
119 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012
PAZ043-181815-
WYOMING PA-
119 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL WYOMING COUNTY...
* AT 115 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FORKSTON...AND
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
EVANS FALLS AND VOSBURG AT 125 PM EDT...
EATONVILLE AND TUNKHANNOCK AT 130 PM EDT...
OSTERHOUT AT 135 PM EDT...
FALLS AND LAKE WINOLA AT 145 PM EDT...
MILL CITY AT 150 PM EDT...
WALLS CORNERS AND FACTORYVILLE AT 155 PM EDT...
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.
LAT...LON 4149 7624 4150 7624 4159 7621 4158 7577
4157 7577 4153 7580 4150 7577 4144 7582
DJNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Oneida | 45 min |
| Jul 17, 9:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Oneida | 25 min |
| Jul 18, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Lackawanna | 40 min |
| Jul 18, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne, Wyoming | 68 min |
| Jul 18, 1:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Luzerne, Wyoming | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Pike | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne | 61 min |
| Jul 18, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Lackawanna | 28 min |
| Jul 18, 2:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne | 4 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.