Alert archive / New York / Snow Advisories in 2008
Snow Advisory 3, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this snow advisory at Feb 29, 2008, 4:05 AM EST for 7 counties in New York; 6 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 29, 2008, 2:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 29, 2008, 4:05 AM EST (09:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 29, 2008, 2:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2008, 4:33 AM EST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
Counties Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Snow Advisories in New York, 2008Snow Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2008Every snow advisory 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.