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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

October 6, 200814 counties in New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this freeze warning at Oct 6, 2008, 3:11 AM EDT for 14 counties in New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 7, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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: Oct 6, 2008, 3:11 AM EDT (07:11 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 7, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 7, 2008, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

All 21 counties

Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler 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), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:10 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1128 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 6, 2:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 2:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 6 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
Oct 6, 3:11 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca	30 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New York, 2008 Freeze Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2008 Every freeze warning in 2008

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.