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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 4, 2015Cayuga County, Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 2:55 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 2015, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2015, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 4, 2:04 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:04 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 1:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
153 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-
044-047-048-072-051800-
NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN-
SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO-
OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA-
NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE-
153 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND
NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY
EVENING. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS
AND SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

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, Aug 4, 2:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
255 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

NYZ017-018-042000-
ONONDAGA NY-SOUTHERN CAYUGA NY-
255 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN ONONDAGA AND CENTRAL
CAYUGA COUNTIES  ...

* AT 255 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
  OVER WEEDSPORT...OR OVER NEW YORK THRUWAY EXIT 40...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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

* THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JORDAN AROUND 300 PM EDT.
  MELROSE PARK AROUND 305 PM EDT.
  SKANEATELES AROUND 310 PM EDT.
  MARCELLUS AND CAMILLUS AROUND 320 PM EDT.
  OTISCO AROUND 345 PM EDT.
  TULLY AND LA FAYETTE AROUND 355 PM EDT.
  POMPEY...FABIUS AND WATERVALE AROUND 400 PM EDT.

LAT...LON 4298 7591 4279 7600 4278 7610 4278 7618
      4296 7669 4303 7666 4303 7650 4311 7649
TIME...MOT...LOC 1855Z 291DEG 22KT 4302 7655

MLJ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chenango	37 min
Aug 3, 8:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	58 min
Aug 4, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Seneca	43 min
Aug 4, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chenango	27 min
Aug 4, 3:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	31 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.