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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 22, 2020Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2020, 2:19 PM EDT for Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 56 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
Jul 22, 2020, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2020, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Pike County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2020-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2020-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 Jul 22, 1:57 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 1:57 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 3:59 AM EDT, 10 hours 20 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
359 AM EDT Wed Jul 22 2020

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-
044-047-048-072-230800-
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-
359 AM EDT Wed Jul 22 2020

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central New York and
northeast Pennsylvania.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

There is a slight risk of severe thunderstorms today, with the
primary threat damaging winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

There is a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms on Thursday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed. Please relay any information about
severe weather to the NWS while following local, state and CDC
guidelines.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 4:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMDelaware37 min
Jul 22, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware, Sullivan45 min
Jul 22, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware, Sullivan33 min
Jul 22, 5:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSullivan11 min
Jul 22, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMPike28 min
Jul 22, 5:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMPike45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.