A cold front brought scattered showers and thunderstorms to Northeast Pennsylvania. Isolated thunderstorms approached severe levels.
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A cold front brought scattered showers and thunderstorms to Northeast Pennsylvania. Isolated thunderstorms approached severe levels.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 11, 1:43 PM EST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 243 PM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 .SYNOPSIS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION BY THIS EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN BEHIND THE FRONT...BRINING IN COOLER AND MUCH DRIER AIR LATER TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. A WEAK LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION ON FRIDAY. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT/... COLD FRONT PUSHING THRU WESTERN NY WITH LINE OF CONVECTION AND OTHER SHOWERS AND STORMS BREAKING OUT AHEAD OF THE LINE. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IS QUITE BENIGN...WITH ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE POSSIBLE. VERY MOIST AIRMASS WITH DEW POINTS IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S...SO BETTER THREAT FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH THESE STORMS. JUST DIDN/T HAVE THE INSTABILITY TODAY WITH AMT OF CLD COVER TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD SVR. AS THE FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH EAST THIS EVENING...SHOWERS TAPER OFF FROM WEST TO EAST...WITH MOST PRECIP OVER WITH BEFORE MIDNIGHT...EVEN IN THE FAR EASTERN ZONES. && .SHORT TERM /MIDNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... GOOD DRYING TAKES PLACE BEHIND THE FROPA AS WEAK RIDGING BUILDS IN BRIEFLY FOR THURSDAY. DRY AIR TONIGHT AND WIND GRADIENT SHOULD PRECLUDE MUCH IN THE WAY OF FOG FORMATION LATE TONIGHT. UPPER TROF DIGS BACK IN...ESP FOR FRIDAY WITH WEAK SFC REFLECTION AND UNSETTLED CONDITIONS WITH A CHC FOR SHOWERS. TEMPS THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS IN THE 70S WITH LOWS IN THE 50S. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... POS PNA PTRN SHUD BEGIN TO WEAKEN BY EARLY NXT WEEK. TIL THEN NW FLOW WITH IMPULSES ROTATING THRU. FOLLOWED HPC WITH ONLY MINOR TWEAKS BASED ON LATEST 12Z RUNS. TIMING OF NXT CDFNT APPEARS TO BE A LTL FASTER THAN HPC PROG...SAT NGT AS OPPOSED TO SUNDAY...SO PLAYED A CHC FOR TSRA MAINLY UPSTATE NY SAT NGT...OTRW THE WEEKEND LOOKS MAINLY DRY. && .AVIATION /18Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... LINE OF TSRA AHEAD/ALONG CDFNT WILL PUSH THRU THE CWA THIS AFTN...PUSHING INTO THE SYR/ITH/ELM AREAS IN THE 19-20Z TIME FRAME...AND XPCTD TO EXIT ERN EXNS BY 00Z. WDSPRD MVFR VSBYS DUE TO HAZE AND AREA OF SHRA/TSRA THIS AFTN INTO EARLY EVNG...WITH POTNL FOR BRIEF IFR CONDITIONS. RAPID IMPVMNT LIKELY THIS EVENG AS GUSTY NW WINDS 10-20 MOV INTO THE RGN BEHIND THE FNT, ALONG WITH RAPIDLY LOWERING TDS. WIND WILL LIKELY DROP OFF LATE...AND TUFF CALL ON POTNL FOR FOG LATE. ATTM JUST PLAYED POTNL AT ELM LATE...BUT WILL ALSO HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON AVP. OUTLOOK...GNRL VFR CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL. && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...JML NEAR TERM...JML SHORT TERM...JML LONG TERM...RHB AVIATION...RHB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 351 AM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043- 044-047-048-072-120800- 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- 351 AM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE REGION TODAY AND BRING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THERE/S A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH STRONG WINDS...HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AGAIN THE PRIMARY STORM THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 220 PM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 NYZ046-111845- OTSEGO NY- 220 PM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 219 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ELK CREEK...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WESTFORD AND MIDDLEFIELD AT 225 PM EDT... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 426 PM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 NYZ025-044-112115- CORTLAND NY-TOMPKINS NY- 426 PM EDT WED JUL 11 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 424 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEWFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ITHACA AT 435 PM EDT... CAROLINE AND FREEVILLE AT 455 PM EDT... DRYDEN AT 500 PM EDT... HARFORD AT 505 PM EDT... THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... UP TO 50 MPH... WHICH WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO DAMAGE SMALL BRANCHES AND POORLY ROOTED TREES. MSE
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:09 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down. One tree fell on wires and caused a fire and power loss.
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