Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 339
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2012, 8:24 PM EDT for Broome County, Chemung County, Tioga County, New York; 6 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2012, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2012, 11:26 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Steuben, Tioga | 39 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 480 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Cumberland and 11 more | 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.