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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Binghamton, NY

November 30, 200617 counties in New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this high wind watch at Nov 30, 2006, 2:26 AM EST for 17 counties in New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Dec 1, 2006, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 30, 2006, 2:26 AM EST (07:26 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 1, 2006, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 1, 2006, 2:21 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

All 24 counties

Broome County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:30 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 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 high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 30, 2:18 AM EST, 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 30, 2:22 AM EST, 4 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
Nov 30, 2:01 PM EST	Flash Flood Watch	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more	28 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in New York, 2006 High Wind Watches in Pennsylvania, 2006 Every high wind watch in 2006

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.