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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 12, 2026Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2026, 5:08 PM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 37 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 12, 2026, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 2026, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Bradford County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2026-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 590 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2026-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 5:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMChemung, Steuben3 hr
Aug 12, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan34 min
Aug 12, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSchuyler, Steuben, Yates34 min
Aug 12, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSteuben, Yates28 min
Aug 12, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSchuyler, Steuben, Yates37 min
Aug 12, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSchuyler, Tompkins26 min
Aug 12, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome, Tioga28 min
Aug 12, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTompkins31 min
Aug 12, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tompkins, Yates51 min
Aug 12, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome30 min
Aug 12, 7:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMTioga, Tompkins32 min
Aug 12, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBradford31 min
Aug 12, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBradford23 min
Aug 12, 5:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMBradford3 hr

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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.