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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 13, 2023Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2023, 7:08 PM EDT for Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 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 13, 2023, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2023, 7:42 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 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 23:11 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 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 Jul 13, 7:05 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 7:05 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 5:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 13, 5:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 13, 5:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 13, 5:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:12 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:28 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 13, 6:52 PM EDT, 16 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
Jul 13, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Steuben	27 min
Jul 13, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Yates	31 min
Jul 13, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca, Steuben, Yates	33 min
Jul 13, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Yates	11 min
Jul 13, 1:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	33 min
Jul 13, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca, Yates	60 min
Jul 13, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Yates	54 min
Jul 13, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga	52 min
Jul 13, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga	62 min
Jul 13, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	55 min
Jul 13, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Schuyler, Tompkins	63 min
Jul 13, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	33 min
Jul 13, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins	56 min
Jul 13, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	30 min
Jul 13, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Otsego	62 min
Jul 13, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Otsego, Tioga	67 min
Jul 13, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Otsego	49 min
Jul 13, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	43 min
Jul 13, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	59 min
Jul 13, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	39 min
Jul 13, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Tioga	56 min
Jul 13, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	47 min
Jul 13, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	59 min
Jul 13, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Tioga	41 min
Jul 13, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	25 min
Jul 13, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	13 min
Jul 13, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna	33 min
Jul 13, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Pike, Wayne	46 min
Jul 13, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Susquehanna	34 min
Jul 13, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Monroe	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2023 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2023

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.