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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2018, 1:40 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 22 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
- Sep 6, 2018, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2018, 2:02 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 742 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 12:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Delaware | 23 min |
| Sep 6, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Lackawanna | 59 min |
| Sep 6, 1:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Bradford | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 2:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Wyoming | 38 min |
| Sep 6, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming | 15 min |
| Sep 6, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 29 min |
| Sep 6, 2:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Susquehanna, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Sep 6, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Lackawanna | 27 min |
| Sep 6, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Wayne | 45 min |
| Sep 6, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Pike | 32 min |
| Sep 6, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Pike | 32 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.