Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2015, 8:26 PM EDT for Steuben County, Yates County, New York. It was in force for 49 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
- Apr 20, 2015, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2015, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Steuben County, NY, Yates County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 8:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Yates | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 9:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 9:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Onondaga, Seneca | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 9:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 10:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Broome, Chenango | 57 min |
| Apr 20, 11:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Lackawanna | 40 min |
Nearby
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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.