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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Binghamton, NY

February 21, 2008Sullivan County, New York; 5 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this winter storm warning at Feb 21, 2008, 1:20 PM EST for Sullivan County, New York; 5 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 22, 2008, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 22 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: Feb 21, 2008, 1:20 PM EST (18:20 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 22, 2008, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 22, 2008, 10:38 PM EST
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Sullivan County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 21, 1:04 PM EST, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 1:04 PM EST, 16 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
Feb 21, 1:20 PM EST	Snow Advisory	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Tioga	30 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2008 Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2008 Every winter storm 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.