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Lake Effect Snow Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY

December 3, 200710 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this lake effect snow warning at Dec 3, 2007, 4:00 AM EST for 10 counties in New York. It took effect at Dec 3, 2007, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 43 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 3, 2007, 4:00 AM EST (09:00 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 3, 2007, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Dec 5, 2007, 10:50 AM EST
In force
43 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Broome County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2007-12-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2007-12-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 225 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
618 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
245 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 lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow warning went out at Dec 3, 3:08 AM EST, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 3:08 AM EST, 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 3, 4:00 AM ESTLake Effect Snow AdvisoryBGMBroome, Chenango, Delaware, Oneida, Otsego, Schuyler and 4 more42 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Warnings in New York, 2007Every lake effect snow warning in 2007

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.