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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Binghamton, NY

October 7, 2013Chemung County, Schuyler County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 2013, 10:24 AM EDT for Chemung County, Schuyler County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 7, 2013, 10:24 AM EDT (14:24 UTC)
Expired: Oct 7, 2013, 11:15 AM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Chemung County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Bradford County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 7, 8:56 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 7, 10:05 AM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 10:05 AM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 7, 9:43 AM EDT, 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 7, 8:21 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 7, 3:45 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Otsego	10 hr
Oct 7, 9:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben	54 min
Oct 7, 11:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga	6 hr
Oct 7, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	57 min
Oct 7, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan	65 min
Oct 7, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	49 min
Oct 7, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	52 min
Oct 7, 11:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne, Wyoming	43 min
Oct 7, 11:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford, Susquehanna	47 min
Oct 7, 12:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wyoming	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2013 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.