Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2014, 8:06 PM EDT for Chemung County, Schuyler County, Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 24 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 13, 2014, 8:06 PM EDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2014, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chemung County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Steuben County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 736 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 13, 6:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 649 PM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 .SYNOPSIS... A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN IN OUR VICINITY TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY. WHILE MUCH OF THE TIME WILL BE DRY, SCATTERED SHOWERS AND PERHAPS A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST ON FRIDAY WITH A SOAKING RAIN. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING/... 6 PM UPDATE...LATEST LOCAL RADAR IMAGERY SHOWS THE BACKDOOR COLD FRONT ABOUT TO MOVE THROUGH THE LOCAL BGM AREA. THIS FEATURE EXTENDS UP THROUGH THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY AND SOUTH ACROSS THE WYOMING VALLEY. LOCATIONS EAST OF THE FEATURE ARE IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 70S WHILE OVER THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER AND FINGER LAKES AREA ITS IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 80S. THIS BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO REACH THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER AND EASTERN FINGER LAKES BEFORE STALLING AND MOVING BACK EAST. ISOLATED CONVECTION MAY FIRE ALONG THIS BOUNDARY UNTIL EARLY EVENING WHEN CAPE AND LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL LESSEN. CONVECTION OVER GEORGIAN BAY WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH COLD FRONT MAY MOVE INTO THE NRN PTN OF CWA LATE TONIGHT BUT BOUNDARY WILL SLOW OVERNIGHT AND CONVECTION WILL MOVE INTO A MUCH MORE STABLE ENVIRONMENT BY THEN. 3 PM UPDATE... A WEAK WARM FRONT IS ACROSS THE AREA WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE L60S IN THE WEST. AS THE WARM FRONT LIFTS NE WITH A WEAK WAVE A FEW SHOWERS AND MAYBE A TSTORM WILL GET GOING LATE TODAY AND THIS EVE. THE UL RIDGE ALSO MOVES THROUGH CREATING A DEEPER SOUTHERLY FLOW OF WARM AND MOIST AIR INTO THE CWA. WITH THE HIGH DEWPT TEMPS...MIN TEMPS WILL VARY WIDELY FROM U40S EAST TO A60 FAR WEST. DEWPTS DROP AS THE NIGHT GOES ON WITH THE EXIT OF THE WARM FRONT AND THE COLD FRONT NEARLY STATIONARY IN ERN MICIGAN. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY/... 3 PM UPDATE... WED AND THU WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE LAST 2 DAYS. WEAK FORCING AND MORE COVERAGE LATE IN THE DAY WITH DIURNAL HEATING. WED WILL BE BETTER THAN THU AS A COLD FRONT MOVES EAST INTO NW NY THEN LIFTS NORTH WED NGT. THU LITTLE FORCING AS WE WAIT FOR THE MAIN SHOW WHICH IS THE COLD FRONT. A SFC LOW WILL MOVE NORTH UP THE MISS VALLEY TO MICHIGAN THEN INTO QUEBEC AHEAD OF A DEEP DIGGING UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER THE MIDWEST. THIS STALLS OVER THE GREAT LAKES BUT KEEPS THE COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE CWA FRIDAY. WITH THE FRONT WILL BE A BAND OF HEAVY RAIN OF WIDESPREAD 1 TO 2 INCHES. HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE WHICH COULD CAUSE MINOR ISOLATED HYDRO PROBLEMS. THIS RAIN HELPED BY GOOD LIFT AND FORCING AND PWATS OF 2 TO 3 STANDARD DEVIATIONS ABOVE NORMAL. DEWPTS 60S AND TROPICAL MOISTURE. WITH RIVERS NEAR NORMAL 1 TO 2 INCHES WOULD MOST LIKELY NOT CAUSE ANY FLOODING. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... 230 PM UPDATE... MED RANGE MODELS INDICATING CDFNT WL BE BISECTING CWA AT BEGINNING OF LONG TERM. HV GONE WITH LKLY/CATEGORICAL POPS EAST OF I-81 WITH CHC FURTHER BACK TO THE WEST. MAINLY SHOWERS EXPECTED FOLLOWING FROPA. REMAINDER OF LONG TERM WL FEATURE SHOWERS EACH PD COURTESY OF UPR LVL LOW HANGING BACK TO THE WEST. AS IS TYPICAL IN THESE CASES, EXPECT THAT AFT 12Z SATURDAY MOST OF THE SHOWERS WL BE OF THE MORE HIT AND MISS VARIETY WITH MOSTLY MISSES. THUS, THRU THE END OF THE LONG TERM WL KEEP 20-30 POPS OVR ENTIRE CWA. TEMPS DRG THE PD EXPECTED TO BE BLO NRML UNDER EXTENSIVE CLD CVR. FOLLOWED WPC GRIDS FOR THE LONG TERM WITH NO SIGNIFICANT DISCREPANCIES BTWN MED RANGE GUIDANCE. && .AVIATION /00Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... THE NAM AND RAP MODELS ARE BACKING OFF ON THE EXTENT OF THE PROJECTED MARINE LAYER FOR THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. OUR LATEST FORECAST INCLUDES A TEMPO PERIOD FOR MVFR TO BORDERLINE IFR CEILINGS FROM AVP UP TO ITH. MODEL SOUNDINGS SUGGEST A BURN OFF BETWEEN 13Z AND 15Z, THEN A PARTLY SUNNY AFTERNOON WITH A SCATTERED CU DECK BETWEEN 3500 AND 5000 FEET. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR AN AFTERNOON SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM. OUTLOOK... WED NGT/THUR...MAINLY VFR, BUT POSSIBLE MVFR PDS IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THUR NGT/FRI...MVFR AND POSSIBLE IFR RESTRICTIONS IN SHRA/TSRA AS COLD FRONT STALLS NEAR AREA. SAT...MVFR RESTRICTIONS POSSIBLE EARLY, BECOMING VFR DURING THE AFTERNOON. SUN...MVFR RESTRICTIONS POSSIBLE IN ISOLATED SHOWERS BUT MAINLY VFR. && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...TAC NEAR TERM...RRM/TAC SHORT TERM...TAC LONG TERM...PVN AVIATION...DJP
Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 1:51 PM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 151 PM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043- 044-047-048-072-141800- NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN- SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO- OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA- NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE- 151 PM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. A COLD FRONT WITH RAIN WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY. 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE WITH LOCALIZED HIGHER AMOUNTS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. THE HIGHER AMOUNTS OF RAIN COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 13, 8:00 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Steuben | 30 min |
| May 13, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Schuyler | 30 min |
| May 13, 9:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca | 25 min |
| May 13, 10:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Seneca, Yates | 3 hr |
| May 13, 11:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Cortland | 34 min |
| May 13, 11:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Steuben, Yates | 6 hr |
| May 14, 12:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca | 3 hr |
| May 14, 1:48 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Otsego | 4 hr |
| May 14, 3:38 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Seneca | 4 hr |
| May 14, 5:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BGM | Yates | 3 hr |
| May 14, 8:37 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BGM | Yates | 3 hr |
| May 14, 10:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BGM | Cayuga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Yates | 14 hr |
| May 14, 11:27 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BGM | Yates | 11 hr |
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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.