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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 2014, 8:32 PM EDT for Chenango County, Delaware County, Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 28 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2014, 8:32 PM EDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2014, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chenango County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Otsego County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 8:32 PM EDT | TORNADO | 5 W Afton, NY | AN EF1 TORNADO WITH ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS OF 100 MPH... PATH LENGTH OF 0.1 MILES AND PATH WIDTH OF 50 YARDS TOUCHES DOWN ABOUT 300 YARDS WEST OF SAINT JOHNS ROAD NEAR THE INTERSECTION WITH HILL TOP DRIVE. THE TORNADO SNAPPED AND UPROOTED NUMEROUS TREES IN A CO |
| Sep 2, 8:35 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Afton, NY | TREES DOWN |
| Sep 2, 8:35 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Afton, NY | *** 1 INJ *** MOTORCYCLE RIDER INJURED BY DOWNED TREE. REPORT VIA WBNG-TV. |
| Sep 2, 8:45 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Wells Bridge, NY | TREES DOWN |
| Sep 2, 8:54 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Trout Creek, NY | TREE DOWN ON ROUTE 206 |
| Sep 2, 9:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Oneonta, NY | WIRES DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1283 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
382
WFUS51 KBGM 030032
TORBGM
NYC017-025-077-030100-
/O.NEW.KBGM.TO.W.0013.140903T0032Z-140903T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
832 PM EDT TUE SEP 2 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL CHENANGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...
NORTHWESTERN DELAWARE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...
SOUTHWESTERN OTSEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...
* UNTIL 900 PM EDT.
* AT 828 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR NINEVEH...
MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
THE STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
SIDNEY BY 840 PM EDT...
UNADILLA AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF ROCKDALE BY 845 PM EDT...
EAST SIDNEY AND SIDNEY CENTER BY 850 PM EDT...
FRANKLIN AND OTEGO BY 855 PM EDT...
7 MILES SOUTH OF ONEONTA...7 MILES WEST OF MEREDITH AND 8 MILES
SOUTH OF WEST END BY 900 PM EDT...
* THIS STORM RECENTLY PRODUCED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER CHEMUNG
COUNTY.
WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY...PLEASE REPORT HAIL...OR DAMAGING WINDS TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT
1-888-603-1402...OR BY EMAIL AT BGM.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT
OR AN INTERIOR ROOM...AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 4225 7489 4217 7542 4220 7542 4220 7563
4225 7564 4225 7571 4229 7572 4253 7504
TIME...MOT...LOC 0031Z 250DEG 44KT 4223 7555
$$
DJPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego | 67 min |
| Sep 2, 8:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Otsego | 52 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.