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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 8, 2015Chemung County, Steuben County, Tioga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2015, 2:54 PM EDT for Chemung County, Steuben County, Tioga County, New York. It was in force for 51 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 8, 2015, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2015, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chemung County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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
Jun 8, 1:39 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 8, 2:28 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:28 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 1:54 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 1:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 1:55 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 2:25 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 2:28 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:43 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
243 PM EDT MON JUN 8 2015

NYZ022>024-PAZ038-081945-
SCHUYLER NY-CHEMUNG NY-STEUBEN NY-BRADFORD PA-
243 PM EDT MON JUN 8 2015

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN STEUBEN...
SOUTHEASTERN SCHUYLER...CHEMUNG AND NORTHWESTERN BRADFORD COUNTIES
...

* AT 243 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
  OVER LINDLEY...OR NEAR CORNING...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MILLERTON AROUND 250 PM EDT.
  EAST CORNING AROUND 255 PM EDT.
  SOUTHPORT...BIG FLATS AND PINE CITY AROUND 300 PM EDT.
  ELMIRA...WEST ELMIRA AND HORSEHEADS AROUND 305 PM EDT.
  WELLSBURG...BREESPORT AND LOWMAN AROUND 310 PM EDT.
  ERIN AROUND 315 PM EDT.
  WAVERLY AROUND 320 PM EDT.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL NEW
YORK AND NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4212 7721 4229 7664 4228 7663 4209 7655
      4205 7654 4201 7656 4200 7655 4200 7651
      4198 7650 4195 7692 4200 7693 4200 7717
TIME...MOT...LOC 1843Z 257DEG 35KT 4205 7709

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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 8, 12:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Yates	65 min
Jun 8, 12:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca, Yates	40 min
Jun 8, 12:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Yates	59 min
Jun 8, 12:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Seneca, Steuben, Yates	61 min
Jun 8, 12:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BGM	Cayuga, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Steuben and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 8, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Steuben, Yates	61 min
Jun 8, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	53 min
Jun 8, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Yates	60 min
Jun 8, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	56 min
Jun 8, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chemung	62 min
Jun 8, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	50 min
Jun 8, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	96 min
Jun 8, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna	65 min
Jun 8, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Wayne	35 min
Jun 8, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna	54 min
Jun 8, 6:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	3 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.