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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 9, 2012Chemung County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT for Chemung County, New York. It was in force for 39 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
Aug 9, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

County Chemung County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2012-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2012-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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.

466 
WWUS81 KBGM 091921
SPSBGM

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
321 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012

NYZ022-024-055-PAZ038-092000-
BRADFORD PA-CHEMUNG NY-STEUBEN NY-TIOGA NY-
321 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CHEMUNG...NORTHWESTERN BRADFORD...
SOUTHEASTERN STEUBEN AND SOUTHWESTERN TIOGA COUNTIES...

* AT 317 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WEST ELMIRA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HORSEHEADS AND HORSEHEADS NORTH AT 330 PM EDT...
  BREESPORT AND LOWMAN AT 335 PM EDT...
  ERIN AND CHEMUNG AT 340 PM EDT...
  OWENS MILL AND SWARTWOOD AT 345 PM EDT...
  VAN ETTEN AND LOCKWOOD AT 350 PM EDT...
  SPENCER AND BARTON AT 355 PM EDT...

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

LAT...LON 4219 7704 4225 7643 4196 7631 4192 7692
      4199 7693 4200 7700

$$

HEDEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan34 min
Aug 9, 2:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSchuyler31 min
Aug 9, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida49 min
Aug 9, 4:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMHerkimer25 min
Aug 9, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida31 min
Aug 9, 4:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMChenango, Otsego54 min
Aug 9, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome55 min
Aug 9, 5:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMChenango62 min
Aug 9, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOtsego58 min
Aug 9, 6:31 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMOtsego2 hr
Aug 9, 6:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMOtsego2 hr
Aug 9, 7:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOtsego56 min
Aug 9, 1:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSusquehanna57 min
Aug 9, 2:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMTioga45 min
Aug 9, 5:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSusquehanna36 min
Aug 9, 6:29 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMLuzerne3 hr
Aug 9, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLuzerne, Wyoming55 min
Aug 9, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming53 min
Aug 9, 7:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMWayne58 min
Aug 9, 7:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMLuzerne108 min
Aug 9, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMLackawanna, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.