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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 3, 2026Steuben County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2026, 3:06 PM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 39 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 3, 2026, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2026, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Steuben County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 530 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 3, 2:15 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:15 PM EDT, 51 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 2, 8:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	29 min
Jul 3, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Steuben	38 min
Jul 3, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca, Tompkins, Yates	48 min
Jul 3, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	51 min
Jul 3, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BGM	Broome	44 min
Jul 3, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Tompkins	24 min
Jul 3, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	45 min
Jul 3, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Delaware, Sullivan	54 min
Jul 3, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	47 min
Jul 3, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	28 min
Jul 3, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	61 min
Jul 3, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Seneca	54 min
Jul 3, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BGM	Sullivan	30 min
Jul 3, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland	62 min
Jul 3, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	32 min
Jul 3, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming	68 min
Jul 3, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne	43 min
Jul 3, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BGM	Lackawanna, Pike, Wayne	18 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.