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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 14, 2012Steuben County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2012, 5:03 PM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 57 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 14, 2012, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2012, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

County Steuben County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1174 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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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 Aug 14, 3:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 3:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 3:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
300 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-
044-047-048-072-151900-
NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN-
SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO-
OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA-
NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE-
300 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW
YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS
THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD
BECOME SEVERE WITH STRONG WINDS OR LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE AREA FRIDAY BRINGING A CHANCE
FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE ON
FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

RRM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 5:03 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
503 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

NYZ022-142200-
STEUBEN NY-
503 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

...THUNDERSTORM WILL FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN
STEUBEN COUNTY...

AT 500 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES
WEST OF ARKPORT...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ARKPORT AT 520 PM EDT...
  HORNELL AT 525 PM EDT...
  COHOCTON AT 545 PM EDT...
  AVOCA AT 555 PM EDT...
  BATH AT 600 PM EDT...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE
INDOORS IMMEDIATELY!

LAT...LON 4253 7773 4254 7772 4254 7767 4258 7766
      4259 7766 4258 7724 4217 7722 4219 7775

DJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Steuben	62 min
Aug 14, 6:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Steuben	3 hr
Aug 14, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison and 5 more	83 min
Aug 14, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	62 min
Aug 14, 7:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Steuben	2 hr
Aug 14, 7:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga	3 hr
Aug 14, 7:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Schuyler, Tompkins	3 hr
Aug 14, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cortland	53 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.