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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 18, 2019Broome County, Chenango County, Tioga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2019, 3:27 PM EDT for Broome County, Chenango County, Tioga County, New York. It was in force for 63 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: Aug 18, 2019, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2019, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Tioga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 18, 1:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 1:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 3:24 AM EDT, 12 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 18, 3:01 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 3:09 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 18, 3:09 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 3:22 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 3:27 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
Aug 17, 8:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	19 min
Aug 18, 12:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Steuben	36 min
Aug 18, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Yates	31 min
Aug 18, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Schuyler	37 min
Aug 18, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben	31 min
Aug 18, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins	43 min
Aug 18, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga	25 min
Aug 18, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga	47 min
Aug 18, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Tioga, Tompkins	34 min
Aug 18, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	36 min
Aug 18, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	44 min
Aug 18, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	31 min
Aug 18, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Seneca	42 min
Aug 18, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	40 min
Aug 18, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Delaware	31 min
Aug 18, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	42 min
Aug 18, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango	22 min
Aug 18, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	28 min
Aug 18, 4:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca	67 min
Aug 18, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	48 min
Aug 18, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	65 min
Aug 18, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	35 min
Aug 18, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	45 min
Aug 18, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	18 min
Aug 18, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Yates	35 min
Aug 18, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben, Yates	33 min
Aug 17, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	25 min
Aug 18, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Susquehanna, Wyoming	37 min
Aug 18, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna, Wayne	41 min
Aug 18, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne	43 min
Aug 18, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna, Wayne	50 min
Aug 18, 5:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Luzerne	109 min
Aug 18, 5:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Luzerne	97 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.