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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 28, 2013Tioga County, New York; Bradford County, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2013, 4:10 PM EDT for Tioga County, New York; Bradford County, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 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 28, 2013, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2013, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Tioga County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 28, 3:29 PM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:29 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 11:51 AM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 11:54 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 1:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 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 27, 9:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome	4 hr
Jun 27, 9:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	3 hr
Jun 27, 9:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Sullivan	3 hr
Jun 27, 9:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Tioga	4 hr
Jun 27, 9:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Madison, Oneida	3 hr
Jun 27, 9:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	6 hr
Jun 27, 10:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango, Otsego	6 hr
Jun 27, 10:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	4 hr
Jun 27, 11:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	4 hr
Jun 28, 1:40 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango	33 hr
Jun 28, 2:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	6 hr
Jun 28, 2:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	10 hr
Jun 28, 3:31 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Oneida	9 hr
Jun 28, 4:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango, Otsego	3 hr
Jun 28, 5:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango	6 hr
Jun 28, 5:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	BGM	Oneida	3 hr
Jun 28, 7:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango	5 hr
Jun 28, 8:17 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	23 hr
Jun 28, 8:49 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango	6 hr
Jun 28, 8:49 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	5 days
Jun 28, 8:49 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	13 hr
Jun 28, 8:49 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Tioga	13 hr
Jun 28, 12:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Oneida	6 hr
Jun 28, 12:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Oneida	6 hr
Jun 28, 1:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango	6 hr
Jun 28, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben	66 min
Jun 28, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	61 min
Jun 28, 5:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome	6 hr
Jun 28, 5:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware	6 hr
Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Delaware	3 hr
Jun 28, 7:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Sullivan	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna	6 hr
Jun 28, 3:55 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Susquehanna, Wayne	9 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2013 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.