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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 29, 2016Seneca County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT for Seneca County, New York. It was in force for 32 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: May 29, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

County Seneca County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 316 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 May 29, 3:07 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:07 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 3:11 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 1:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
201 PM EDT SUN MAY 29 2016

NYZ015>017-022-291900-
SENECA NY-YATES NY-STEUBEN NY-SOUTHERN CAYUGA NY-
201 PM EDT SUN MAY 29 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SENECA...STEUBEN...
CAYUGA AND YATES COUNTIES  ...

* AT 200 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM COUDERSPORT TO 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF GENESEE TO PARKER DAM STATE PARK...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

* THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SENECA...
  STEUBEN...CAYUGA AND YATES COUNTIES.

LAT...LON 4253 7772 4258 7765 4258 7737 4276 7731
      4276 7698 4301 7696 4301 7647 4285 7645
      4278 7627 4262 7634 4263 7667 4255 7659
      4254 7689 4246 7691 4248 7710 4227 7710
      4228 7697 4200 7697 4200 7775 4201 7775
TIME...MOT...LOC 1800Z 032DEG 134KT 4178 7803 4191 7793 4120 7852

KAH

Special weather statement, May 29, 2:23 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 2:56 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 29, 3:11 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 3:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 11:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tompkins	56 min
May 29, 11:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cortland	58 min
May 29, 11:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Madison	67 min
May 29, 12:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cortland	3 hr
May 29, 12:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	30 min
May 29, 12:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Madison, Oneida	3 hr
May 29, 12:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	54 min
May 29, 12:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Madison, Oneida	3 hr
May 29, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Yates	41 min
May 29, 1:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Steuben	3 hr
May 29, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca, Steuben, Yates	59 min
May 29, 2:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	3 hr
May 29, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	52 min
May 29, 2:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Onondaga	4 hr
May 29, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Seneca, Steuben, Yates	64 min
May 29, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	61 min
May 29, 3:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Chemung, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins and 1 more	3 hr
May 29, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	26 min
May 29, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	34 min
May 29, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	27 min
May 29, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Madison, Oneida	51 min
May 29, 5:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Madison, Oneida	2 hr
May 29, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	33 min
May 29, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	31 min

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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.