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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2012, 6:25 PM EDT for Delaware County, Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 35 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 5, 2012, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Delaware County, NY, Otsego County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
885 WFUS51 KBGM 052225 TORBGM NYC025-077-052300- /O.NEW.KBGM.TO.W.0010.120805T2225Z-120805T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 625 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL DELAWARE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... SOUTH CENTRAL OTSEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT. * AT 622 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EAST SIDNEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OTEGO BY 630 PM EDT... MERIDALE...MEREDITH AND EMMONS BY 645 PM EDT... EAST MEREDITH BY 655 PM EDT... DAVENPORT BY 700 PM EDT... WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY...PLEASE REPORT HAIL...OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1-888-603-1402...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 4254 7486 4238 7473 4222 7521 4235 7529 TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 242DEG 29KT 4232 7517 $$ HEDEN
1 follow-up statement
319 WWUS51 KBGM 052234 SVSBGM SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 634 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 NYC025-077-052300- /O.CON.KBGM.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-120805T2300Z/ DELAWARE NY-OTSEGO NY- 634 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL OTSEGO AND NORTH CENTRAL DELAWARE COUNTIES... AT 632 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FRANKLIN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NORTH FRANKLIN BY 640 PM EDT... MERIDALE...MEREDITH AND EMMONS BY 645 PM EDT... COLLIERSVILLE BY 650 PM EDT... EAST MEREDITH AND DAVENPORT CENTER BY 655 PM EDT... KORTRIGHT...BUTTS CORNER AND DAVENPORT BY 700 PM EDT... PLEASE REPORT HAIL...OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1-888-603-1402...OR BY EMAIL AT BGM.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. && LAT...LON 4239 7520 4254 7486 4238 7473 4225 7513 TIME...MOT...LOC 2235Z 250DEG 31KT 4234 7508 $$ HEDEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Onondaga | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Onondaga | 23 min |
| Aug 5, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Chenango | 23 min |
| Aug 5, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Delaware, Otsego | 62 min |
| Aug 5, 6:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Tioga | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Otsego | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Chemung, Tioga | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Otsego | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 7:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Delaware | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Otsego | 39 min |
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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.