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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 21, 20134 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2013, 9:37 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 53 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: May 21, 2013, 9:37 PM EDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2013, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Chenango County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Otsego County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 21, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 353 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 May 21, 9:13 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 9:13 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 9:07 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 21, 8:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 21, 8:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 21, 8:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 21, 8:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 21, 8:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 9:01 PM EDT, 36 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
May 21, 8:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Steuben, Yates	4 hr
May 21, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga	64 min
May 21, 8:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	57 min
May 21, 8:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Otsego and 1 more	4 hr
May 21, 9:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	59 min
May 21, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland, Tompkins	65 min
May 21, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca	65 min
May 21, 10:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	33 min
May 21, 10:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Tioga, Tompkins	51 min
May 21, 11:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chenango, Otsego, Tioga	57 min
May 22, 11:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	36 min
May 22, 11:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	58 min
May 22, 12:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware	50 min
May 22, 12:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	59 min
May 22, 1:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	36 min
May 22, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	40 min
May 22, 1:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Sullivan	36 min
May 22, 2:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Sullivan	16 min
May 22, 2:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Sullivan	3 hr
May 22, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	56 min
May 22, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Onondaga	43 min
May 22, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Madison	23 min
May 22, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida, Onondaga	60 min
May 22, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Madison	26 min
May 22, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	32 min
May 22, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	55 min
May 22, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	60 min
May 22, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	43 min
May 22, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Yates	44 min
May 22, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	63 min
May 22, 11:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Wayne	31 min
May 22, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	54 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.