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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 21, 2026Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2026, 1:49 PM EDT for Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 26 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 21, 2026, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2026, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 0.75 in

County Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 1211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 21, 1:44 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 1:44 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 1:01 AM EDT, 12 hours 48 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
101 AM EDT Tue Jul 21 2026

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-220515-
Northern Oneida-Yates-Seneca-Southern Cayuga-Onondaga-Steuben-
Schuyler-Chemung-Tompkins-Madison-Southern Oneida-Cortland-Chenango-
Otsego-Tioga-Broome-Delaware-Sullivan-
101 AM EDT Tue Jul 21 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central New York.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms will move through the
region. Thunderstorms have the potential to produce to gusty to
locally damaging winds and heavy rainfall.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed. Please relay any
information about severe weather to the NWS.

PAZ038>040-043-044-047-048-072-220515-
Bradford-Susquehanna-Northern Wayne-Wyoming-Lackawanna-Luzerne-Pike-
Southern Wayne-
101 AM EDT Tue Jul 21 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Pennsylvania.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms will move through the
region. Some of thunderstorms will become severe with damaging winds,
hail and heavy rainfall as the main threats.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed. Please relay any
information about severe weather to the NWS.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 21, 12:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
1242 PM EDT Tue Jul 21 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1222 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     1 N Southport           42.08N 76.81W
07/21/2026                   Chemung            NY   911 Call Center

            Large tree reported down on a car. Wires
            down. Time estimated by radar.

&&

MJM

Local storm report, Jul 21, 1:34 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
134 PM EDT Tue Jul 21 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0104 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     4 SW Apalachin          42.03N 76.22W
07/21/2026                   Tioga              NY   911 Call Center

            Tree down on wires along Montrose Turnpike
            as per dispatch feed. Radar-estimated time.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 12:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins	58 min
Jul 21, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	65 min
Jul 21, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	49 min
Jul 21, 1:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Otsego	35 min
Jul 21, 1:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware	31 min
Jul 21, 1:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Sullivan	37 min
Jul 21, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Madison, Otsego	49 min
Jul 21, 2:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Otsego	23 min
Jul 21, 2:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Sullivan	46 min
Jul 21, 2:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Sullivan	4 hr
Jul 21, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BGM	Sullivan	35 min
Jul 21, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne	17 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.