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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 2, 2014Chenango County, Cortland County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2014, 8:58 PM EDT for Chenango County, Cortland County, New York. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 2, 2014, 8:58 PM EDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2014, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 815 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jul 2, 7:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 7:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 7:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 5:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 7:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 7:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 8:30 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:41 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:43 PM EDT, 15 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
Jul 2, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	24 min
Jul 2, 8:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cortland, Madison, Tompkins	45 min
Jul 2, 8:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Tompkins	24 min
Jul 2, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Madison	63 min
Jul 2, 10:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	50 min
Jul 3, 3:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more	17 hr
Jul 3, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Yates	67 min
Jul 3, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cortland, Tompkins	67 min
Jul 3, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga, Tompkins	63 min
Jul 3, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca, Yates	60 min
Jul 3, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	62 min
Jul 3, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cortland, Tompkins	58 min
Jul 3, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	27 min
Jul 3, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca, Tompkins	16 min
Jul 3, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Tompkins	66 min
Jul 3, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida	51 min
Jul 3, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	64 min
Jul 3, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	45 min
Jul 3, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	44 min
Jul 3, 3:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga	3 hr
Jul 3, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Otsego	35 min
Jul 3, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	53 min
Jul 3, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Otsego	54 min
Jul 3, 4:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	6 hr
Jul 3, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	63 min
Jul 3, 5:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Sullivan	6 hr
Jul 3, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	47 min
Jul 3, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome, Tioga	52 min
Jul 3, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Bradford	67 min
Jul 3, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wyoming	43 min
Jul 3, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne, Wyoming	66 min
Jul 3, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming	60 min
Jul 3, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wyoming	38 min
Jul 3, 4:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming	6 hr
Jul 3, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Pike	44 min
Jul 3, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Pike	64 min
Jul 3, 6:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Pike	4 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.