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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 2, 2013Broome County, Chenango County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2013, 2:21 PM EDT for Broome County, Chenango County, New York. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 2, 2013, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2013, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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 nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jun 2, 2:07 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:07 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
935 AM EDT SUN JUN 2 2013

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044-045-055-056-PAZ038-039-043-031345-
NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN-
SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO-
TIOGA-BROOME-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING-
935 AM EDT SUN JUN 2 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY...MAINLY DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD
PRODUCE BRIEFLY GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND PERHAPS SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

NYZ046-057-062-PAZ040-044-047-048-072-031345-
OTSEGO-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-NORTHERN WAYNE-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-
SOUTHERN WAYNE-
935 AM EDT SUN JUN 2 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP AFTER 2 OR 3 PM TODAY...IN
ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD POTENTIALLY
BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. LARGE
HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO OCCUR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

MJ

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 12:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 12:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 1:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:25 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:00 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:15 PM EDT, 6 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
Jun 1, 8:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	49 min
Jun 2, 11:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	50 min
Jun 2, 11:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Otsego	63 min
Jun 2, 12:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	42 min
Jun 2, 12:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	49 min
Jun 2, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	46 min
Jun 2, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	50 min
Jun 2, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	41 min
Jun 2, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	60 min
Jun 2, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	56 min
Jun 2, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	59 min
Jun 2, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cortland, Madison	56 min
Jun 2, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	51 min
Jun 2, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Bradford	48 min
Jun 2, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford, Susquehanna	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 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.