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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2015, 8:25 PM EDT for Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 20 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, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2015, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Otsego County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 12, 3:07 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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, 8:08 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 8:08 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 808 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 .SYNOPSIS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE HEAVY RAIN, HAIL, AND DAMAGING WIND. DRIER WEATHER WILL RETURN SATURDAY AND REMAIN INTO SUNDAY. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM SATURDAY MORNING/... 7 PM UPDATE... TORNADO WATCH DROPPED AND NOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE SE HALF OF THE CWA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. MOSTLY WIND DAMAGE NOW. UPDATED THE GRIDS FOR THE CURRENT WEATHER. TEMPERATURES HAVE DROPPED INTO THE 60S BEHIND THE FRONT. BELIEVE THIS LINE WILL BE IT AND HAVE LOWERED POPS BEHIND IT REST OF TONIGHT INTO SAT MORN. SOME MODELS HAVE ANOTHER LINE FORMING BUT ATMOSPHERE WORKED OVER AND SFC FRONT RIGHT BEHIND LINE SO FORCING LIMITED. FLOOD THREAT NOT LOOKING AS BAD AS EARLIER WITH THE LINE HEADING INTO AREA WITH ONLY A SHOWER OR TWO EARLIER. 3 PM UPDATE... TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL NY. WARM FRONT STILL OVER THE NRN CWA. THIS LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE CREATE HIGH SHEAR. 20 TO 30 KT 0 TO 1KM SHEAR OVER LAKE ONTARIO MOVING EAST. 0 TO 6 KM SHEAR 60 KTS NEAR L ONT TO 30 KTS PA/NY BORDER. STORMS MOSTLY IN THE FAR NORTH ALONG THIS. REST OF THE AREA ONLY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. TEMPERATURES HAVE RISEN INTO THE 80S WITH DEWPOINTS L60S. CAPE IS OVER 1K. DRY MID LEVELS WILL ALLOW STRONG WINDS TO MIX DOWN. THE COLD FRONT IN FAR WRN NY WILL SWEEP THROUGH WITH MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. CONVECTION WILL WEAKEN AS IT MOVES SE INTO NE PA TOWARDS MIDNIGHT. DURING THIS PERIOD WILL NEED TO WATCH FOR TRAINING AS PWATS RISE TO 2 INCHES WITH DEEP SATURATED CLOUD DEPTHS AND A 30 KT LLJ. BEST CHC OF FLASH FLOODING WILL BE ACROSS CENTRAL NY. IN THIS AREA ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS WETTER WITH BETTER TSTORM COVERAGE THIS AFTN. LATE TONIGHT FORCING WILL LESSEN WHILE LIFT WANES. PRECIP WILL DIMINISH IN COVERAGE, STRENGTH, AND ALSO MOVE SE WITH COLD FRONT. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY/... 3 PM UPDATE... WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NNW WHILE AT UPPER LEVELS A RIDGE BUILDS. SHOWERS WILL PUSH SLOWLY SOUTH OUT OF THE AREA. NY MOSTLY DRY SATURDAY THEN SAT NIGHT DRY EVERYWHERE. SUNDAY THE TREND HAS BEEN TO BRING SHOWERS BACK EARLIER AHEAD OF A WARM FRONT. SOME MODELS HAVE SHOWERS COMING INTO THE WRN ZONES MIDDAY THEN EAST AFTN. UPPED POPS SUNDAY AND SUN NGT. THIS WARM FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH SUN NGT WITH SHOWERS AND TSTORMS. A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH MONDAY WITH MORE PRECIP. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... 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 /00Z SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... 730 PM UPDATE... STRONG COLD FNT DROPPING THROUGH THE AREA NOW. RME AND SYR NOW ONLY SPRINKLES. ITH/ELM PROBABLY DONE BY 1Z. BGM BY 2Z. NOW LINE SHOULD GET TO AVP 3 TO 5Z. AT TIMES TSTORMS WILL HAVE IFR VSBYS AND MVFR CIGS IN HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. BEHIND THIS PLENTY OF MOISTURE WITH A NW FLOW. VFR CIGS WILL DROP TO MVFR TONIGHT. SOME LOCATIONS COULD ALSO DROP TO MVFR IN FOG WITH THE WET GROUND. SATURDAY CONDITIONS TO QUICKLY IMPROVE TO VFR BY 15Z. S TO SW WINDS AT 10 KTS AHEAD OF THE FRONT SHIFTING TO W AND NW AT 5 TO 10 KTS BEHIND. SOME GUSTS RIGHT WITH THE LINE OF TSTORMS TO 30 KTS. SATURDAY WINDS NW TO N AT 5 TO 10 KTS. .OUTLOOK... 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...TAC NEAR TERM...TAC SHORT TERM...TAC LONG TERM...DGM AVIATION...DGM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 8:00 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 800 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 NYZ045-046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-044-047-048-072-140000- CHENANGO-OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA- NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE- 800 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 296 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .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. NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044-140000- NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN- SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND- 800 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO ADDITIONAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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
Local storm report, Jun 12, 7:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jun 12, 7:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
723 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 PM TSTM WND DMG CORTLAND 42.60N 76.18W
06/12/2015 CORTLAND NY TRAINED SPOTTER
TREES DOWN.
&&
EMGLocal storm report, Jun 12, 7:33 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
733 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 PM TSTM WND DMG ITHACA 42.44N 76.50W
06/12/2015 TOMPKINS NY 911 CALL CENTER
TREES DOWN IN AND AROUND ITHACA.
&&
MSELocal storm report, Jun 12, 7:36 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
736 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0635 PM TSTM WND DMG WATKINS GLEN 42.38N 76.87W
06/12/2015 SCHUYLER NY 911 CALL CENTER
TREES AND WIRES DOWN IN AND AROUND WATKINS GLEN.
&&
MSELocal storm report, Jun 12, 8:05 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
805 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0533 PM HAIL 2 SSE PERRYVILLE 42.97N 75.80W
06/12/2015 M1.25 INCH MADISON NY AMATEUR RADIO
0545 PM FUNNEL CLOUD PLAINFIELD CENTER 42.84N 75.17W
06/12/2015 OTSEGO NY 911 CALL CENTER
POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD WITH ROTATING WALL CLOUD.
0740 PM HAIL ELMIRA 42.09N 76.81W
06/12/2015 M1.00 INCH CHEMUNG NY TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
EMGLocal storm report, Jun 12, 8:20 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
820 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0730 PM TSTM WND DMG WHITNEY POINT 42.33N 75.97W
06/12/2015 BROOME NY 911 CALL CENTER
A FEW TREES DOWN IN NORTHERN BROOME COUNTY.
&&
MSEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Broome | 75 min |
| Jun 12, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 9:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Delaware | 85 min |
| Jun 12, 10:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 8:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Susquehanna | 61 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.