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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2015, 3:38 PM EDT for Sullivan County, New York. It was in force for 52 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 12, 2015, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2015, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Sullivan County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 Jun 12, 1:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 1:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 148 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 .SYNOPSIS... TODAY WILL BE VERY WARM AND MORE HUMID...AS SOUTHERLY WINDS BRING IN A SUMMER-LIKE AIR MASS. TODAY HIT AND MISS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR...WITH MORE WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS LATER TODAY COULD BE ON THE STRONG SIDE...WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS POSSIBLE. A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH OF THE REGION SATURDAY...WITH DRIER WEATHER RETURNING. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/... 10 AM UPDATE... ISOLATED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY GOING IN NY. ADDED THESE IN. THIS HAS KEPT TEMPS LOW AND DEWPOINTS HIGH. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NE AND OUT OF THE AREA FOR THE MOST PART BY NOON. A BRIEF GAP THEN INCREASING CHANCES THIS AFTN. 415 AM UPDATE... THE SFC FRNTL ZN THAT HAS BEEN MEANDERING OVER OR NEAR OUR FCST AREA FOR MUCH OF THE WEEK...EXTENDS FROM NRN OH TO CNTRL/SRN PA EARLY THIS MRNG. THIS BNDRY IS BEGINNING TO PUSH NWD ONCE AGN AS A WARM FRNT...AND IN RESPONSE TO THIS...ELEVATED CONVECTION IS DVLPG FROM SRN ONT-WRN NY. SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY MAY SKIRT OUR FAR NRN ZNS THROUGH 9 OR 10 AM...BUT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE CWA SHOULD REMAIN PCPN-FREE OVER THE VERY NEAR TERM. THE OTHER ISSUE EARLY THIS MRNG IS LOCALLY DENSE FOG OVER PTNS OF SRN LUZERNE CNTY IN NE PA...WHERE SOME HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRED LAST EVENING. THE FOG HERE SHOULD BURN OFF BY 8-9 AM. FOR THE LATE MRNG-EARLY AFTN PD (10 AM-2 PM)...WE'LL SEE SUNSHINE THROUGH HIGH CLDNS...ALG WITH INCREASINGLY WARM HUMID CONDS...AS CNY/NE PA EMERGES INTO THE WARM SECTOR. FROM MID-AFTN INTO THE EARLY EVE (ROUGHLY 2-8 PM)...WE SHOULD SEE ISOLD-SCTD CONVECTION START TO FIRE...AS THE AMS BCMS MDTLY-VERY UNSTABLE (PROGGED ML CAPES OF 1500-2500 J/KG (LEANED HEAVILY ON THE NAM/HI-RES ARW/RGNL GEM FOR THIS PROGNOSIS))...AND LARGE-SCALE FORCED LIFT GRADUALLY IMPROVES (MAINLY CNY)...OWING TO LOW-LVL CONVERGENCE NEAR THE RETREATING WARM FRNTL BNDRY AND ANY LAKE BREEZE BNDRYS...PLUS UPR-LVL DIFLUENCE UNDERNEATH A DVLPG JET ENTRANCE RGN. MOST OF THE CONVECTIVE COVERAGE DURG THE DAYLIGHT HRS SHOULD BE OVER OUR CNY CNTYS...WITH MORE ISOLD ACTIVITY DOWN OVER NE PA/SULLIVAN CNTY NY. AS FAR AS STORM INTENSITY GOES...WE STILL THINK THERE IS A SVR WX THREAT...AS DEEP-LYRD SHEAR (PROJECTED 0-6 KM BULK SHEARS OF 30-40 KT) ACCOMPANIES THE PREV MENTIONED CAPE. SUCH CAPE/SHEAR PROFILES COULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF LOCALIZED SUPERCELLS...AND/OR STG LINEAR FEATURES. THE SVR WX THREAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE HIGHLIGHTED LOCALLY IN OUR HWO PRODUCT...AND SPC ALSO CONTINUES TO PAINT A SLGT RISK OF SVR THIS AFTN/EVE...MAINLY AGN OVER OUR NY CNTYS. FOR THE MID TO LATE EVE PD (ROUGHLY 8 PM-2 AM)...AS A SFC WV TRACKS FROM UPSTATE NY INTO NRN NEW ENG/SRN QB...THE MAIN SFC BNDRY SHOULD GET DRAGGED BACK SWD AS A COLD FRNT THROUGH CNY/NE PA. AS THIS OCCURS...THERE IS DECENT MODEL AGREEMENT ON MORE WIDESPREAD CONVECTIVE COVERAGE FROM ABT THE TWIN TIERS NWD...WHERE UPR-LVL SUPPORT IS MAXIMIZED. ACRS MUCH OF NE PA...SHWRS/TSTMS SHOULD REMAIN MUCH MORE SCTD IN NATURE. AS WE PROGRESS THROUGH THE EVE HRS...ANY LINGERING SVR WX THREAT SHOULD TRANSITION MORE TO A HEAVY RAINFALL SCENARIO...AS THE INSTABILITY SLOWLY DIMINISHES AND THE SHEAR ALSO WEAKENS. PARAMETERS LOOK FAVORABLE FOR LOCALIZED HEAVY CONVECTIVE RAINFALL...WITH A VERY JUICY ENVIRONMENT (PWAT VALUES NEAR OR EVEN ABV 2" AND WCD'S OF 12-14K FT) AND INITIALLY GOOD SYNOPTIC-SCALE LIFT NEAR THE SWD MOVG COLD FRNT (ALTHOUGH THIS WEAKENS LATE AT NGT BY THE TIME THE FRNT REACHES NE PA...AS ALLUDED TO EARLIER). FOR THESE REASONS...WE'LL HIGHLIGHT AREAS FROM THE TWIN TIERS NWD THIS EVE FOR PSBL HEAVY RAINFALL/ISOLD FLASH FLOODING. WPC HAS ALSO PLACED PTNS OF WRN/CNTRL NY IN A SLGT RISK FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THIS PD. IN GENERAL...SHWRS/TSTMS DECREASE BOTH IN INTENSITY/COVERAGE DURG THE PRE-DAWN HRS EARLY SAT. DURG THE DAY SAT...THE SFC BNDRY SHOULD ONCE AGN SETTLE JUST TO OUR S ACRS THE SRN HALF OF PA. THIS FRNT MAY REMAIN CLOSE ENUF TO SPARK A FEW WIDELY SEPARATED SHWRS/TSTMS ON SAT AFTN...MAINLY DOWN OVER OUR FAR SRN AREAS (MOSTLY S OF A WILKES-BARRE-CARBONDALE-HONESDALE-MONTICELLO LN). FOR MUCH OF THE RGN ON SAT THOUGH...IT SHOULD BE RAIN-FREE...WITH AT LEAST PTLY SUNNY SKIES...AND SOMEWHAT LWR HUMIDITY VALUES. && .SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/... 325 AM UPDATE... UPPER RIDGE EXTENDING IN FROM THE SOUTH...AND SURFACE RIDGE EXTENDING IN FROM QUEBEC...SHOULD MAKE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY FAIRLY QUIET EXCEPT FOR SOME VALLEY FOG SUNDAY MORNING. REMAINS OF SURFACE FRONT WILL BE PUSHED TOWARDS SW PA...THUS ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AT BEST IN CENTRAL TWIN TIERS TO WYOMING VALLEY SATURDAY NIGHT. NOMINAL INSTABILITY IN CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER NY SUNDAY AFTERNOON COULD BURP UP AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR STORM...AS A SHORTWAVE ATTEMPTS TO RIDE THROUGH THE UPPER RIDGE. UPPER RIDGE FLATTENS A BIT SUNDAY NIGHT ONWARD...ALLOWING VERY MOIST AIRMASS TO RETURN INCLUDING PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OF 2 INCHES OR SO ACCORDING TO THE GFS...OR BETWEEN 2 AND 3 STANDARD DEVIATIONS ABOVE NORMAL. NOT SEEING STRONG FORCING JET- WISE...AND THERE MAY BE A FAIR AMOUNT OF CLOUDS WHICH MAY SOMEWHAT HOLD BACK DAYTIME HEATING. HOWEVER...WITH THE RIDGE FLATTENED...SHORTWAVES WILL BE TRAVERSING THROUGH THE AREA WITH SURFACE FRONT WAFFLING BACK-AND-FORTH. SO OVERALL SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS LOOKING PROBABLE ESPECIALLY MONDAY-MONDAY NIGHT AS A BETTER-MARKED WAVE PUSHES THROUGH WITH THE HIGH PWAT VALUES. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL COULD BECOME AN ISSUE WHERE MULTIPLE ROUNDS OCCUR...PARTICULARLY CENTRAL NY ZONES. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... HIPRES BLDS IN TUE BRINGING CLRG SKIES HOLDING INTO WED. HWVR...IT/S A BIT OF A DIRTY FLAT RDG AND ISLTD CONV CAN NOT BE RULED OUT...ESP OVER THE PA ZONES. SLY FLOW AND MOISTURE RETURNS IN EARNEST LATE WED INTO THU AS A WV AND SFC LOW APRCHS FROM THE GREAT LAKES. THIS WILL BRING AN INCRSD CHANCE OF SHWRS AND TRWS INTO THU AND BEYOND. HPC GUID WAS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH OTR MODEL GUID AND WAS GRNLY FLWD. MINOR TWEAKS TO DATA FOR BETTER COLLABORATION AND TO BRING BETTER CONSISTANCY. && .AVIATION /18Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... STRONG COLD FNT WILL DROP INTO THE AREA THIS AFTN AND EVE TRIGGERING SHWRS AND TRWS...ESP OVER THE NY TAF SITES. XPCT BRIEF REDUCTIONS IN VSBY AND CIGS WITH THE STORMS...ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS. FNT WEAKENS OVER THE NY/PA BRDR AND CONV WILL SLOWLY END. LEFTOVER MOISTURE MAY RESULT IN OCNL MVFR CIGS AND VSBYS...AND ISLTD IFR CONDS...THRU LATE NGT. CLRG ON SAT WILL BRING VFR CONDS BEFORE THE END OF TEH PD. .OUTLOOK... SAT -SAT NGT-SUN...VFR EXCEPT FOR VALLEY FOG SUN MRNG ESPECIALLY KELM. SUN NGT-TUE...POSSIBLE SHRA-TSRA AND ASSOCIATED RESTRICTIONS. WED...VFR. && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...MLJ/TAC NEAR TERM...MLJ/TAC SHORT TERM...MDP LONG TERM...DGM AVIATION...DGM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 3:30 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 330 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-131930- NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN- SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO- OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE- 330 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 ...TORNADO WATCH 292 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. TORNADO WATCH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON, BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE, WITH STRONG WINDS AND HAIL THE PRIMARY THREATS, AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING...IF HEAVY RAINFALL BECOMES PROLONGED OVER ANY ONE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ062-PAZ038>040-043-044-047-048-072-131930- SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA-NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA- LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE- 330 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH STRONG WINDS AND HAIL THE PRIMARY THREATS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO HAVE HEAVY RAIN. IF THE RAIN LASTS LONG ENOUGH OVER AN URBAN AREA IT COULD CREATE MINOR FLOOD PROBLEMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 2:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
215 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015
NYZ015>018-121900-
SENECA NY-ONONDAGA NY-YATES NY-SOUTHERN CAYUGA NY-
215 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN ONONDAGA...CENTRAL
SENECA...CENTRAL CAYUGA AND NORTHEASTERN YATES COUNTIES ...
* AT 215 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER KENDAIA...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF PENN YAN...MOVING EAST AT 45
MPH.
* SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
* THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ROMULUS AND OVID AROUND 220 PM EDT.
AURORA...LEVANNA AND CANOGA AROUND 230 PM EDT.
LEDYARD AND UNION SPRINGS AROUND 235 PM EDT.
SCIPIO CENTER AND VENICE CENTER AROUND 240 PM EDT.
FLEMING...CASOWASCO AND MELROSE PARK AROUND 245 PM EDT.
OWASCO AROUND 250 PM EDT.
SKANEATELES...NILES AND KELLOGGSVILLE AROUND 255 PM EDT.
MARCELLUS AROUND 300 PM EDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4277 7697 4282 7697 4304 7633 4278 7620
4262 7697 4276 7704
TIME...MOT...LOC 1815Z 250DEG 38KT 4274 7692
RHBSpecial weather statement, Jun 12, 3:19 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Seneca | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Madison, Otsego | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Onondaga | 40 min |
| Jun 12, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca, Steuben, Yates | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Otsego | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Yates | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Cortland, Madison | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Seneca, Tompkins | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Madison, Otsego | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Tioga | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego | 48 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.