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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Binghamton, NY

March 7, 20088 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this winter storm warning at Mar 7, 2008, 4:01 AM EST for 8 counties in New York. It took effect at Mar 7, 2008, 4:00 PM 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: Mar 7, 2008, 4:01 AM EST (09:01 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 7, 2008, 4:00 PM EST
Expired: Mar 8, 2008, 2:19 PM EST
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Yates County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 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 Mar 7, 3:46 AM EST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 3:46 AM EST, 15 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
Mar 6, 10:20 PM EST	Flood Watch	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Oneida, Otsego, Sullivan and 1 more	51 hr
Mar 7, 4:01 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison and 9 more	66 hr

Nearby

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.